Duncan Regional Hospital Wound Care Center Stays on Leading Edge of Rapidly Changing Industry
Local health care experts at the Duncan Regional Hospital Wound Care Center recently returned from a symposium in Orlando, Fla. where they were briefed by internationally recognized specialists and consulted with peers from around the country on new treatment options and research that may bring additional advances in the care of chronic wounds.
Dr. Cynthia Norman, Susan Fuller, RN, and James Burrows attended the conference which was sponsored by National Healing Corporation, an industry leader which partners with the center and accounts for nearly one-third of all management and outsourced wound centers in the United States.
Dr. Omaida C. Velazquez, director of the vascular laboratory at the University of Miami Hospital, discussed the research currently underway to examine hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy's potential to mobilize endothelial progenitor cells that play a central role in wound healing.
The center currently offers HBO therapy which surrounds the patient with 100 percent oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure to increase the amount of oxygen in the patient's blood and, in the case of wounds, allow red blood cells to pass more easily through the plasma into the wound to heal it from the inside out.
Annabele Barber, M.D., F.A.C.S. from the Department of Surgery at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, informed the participants of new connections being discovered between nutrition and wounds. Diabetes and obesity can often be underlying conditions that delay wound healing. Duncan Regional Hospital Wound Care Center offers disease management as well as hospital-based outpatient wound care.
As a National Healing Wound Healing Center, the center has unique access to a rapid, diagnostic wound pathology service from the University of Miami in which expert pathologists aided by advanced diagnostic techniques can help diagnose its most challenging cases. During the recent symposium, Dr. Paolo Romanelli from the program detailed rare case studies such as one that was referred to him by a National Healing Wound Healing Center and has drawn international attention. In that instance, the patient's serious wound was determined to be caused by a rare infection contracted
by breathing in a fungus found in wood and soil.
Located at 2115 Duncan Regional Loop Road, Duncan, OK, Duncan Regional Hospital Wound Care Center offers state-of-the-art methodologies and treatments including the use of vascular studies, tissue culturing and pathology, revascularization, skin grafting and clinical or surgical debridement.
Likely candidates for treatment are those suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections, vascular disease, compromised skin grafts and flaps and wounds that haven't healed within 30 days. For more information call 580-251-6810
About National Healing Corporation
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., National Healing Corporation provides management services and the latest technology and expertise in wound healing to its client hospitals to establish quality wound healing programs. The Joint Commission has awarded National Healing Disease-Specific Care Certification for wound care. Committed to health care compliance and best practice medicine, National Healing emphasizes these priorities in its extensive clinical and business training programs. The privately-held company accounts for 30 percent of all managed and outsourced wound centers in the United States. For more information, please visit www.nationalhealing.com.
