The Diabetic Foot and Hyperbaric Center for Wound Healing of Capitol Medical Center is a state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary center that offers a comprehensive advance treatment for chronic non-healing wounds. The team is composed of dedicated, compassionate, experienced physicians and nurses with the expertise to understand and treat varied circumstances and challenges of complex wounds.
The goal of the Center is to heal chronic wounds, as well as preserve limbs and prevent wound recurrence. It provides the finest treatment possible while improving the comfort and quality of life of the patient. By recognizing patients “at risk” of developing diabetic foot early, the Center is able to adopt measures to minimize and prevent lower limb amputations and early treatment of pressure injury.
Our Services Offered:
Diabetic Foot Screening
- ABI
- Monofilament Testing
- Tuning Fork
- Risk Stratification
Diabetic Foot & Wound Care Management
- Wound Care
- Use of “modern dressings”
- Minor and medium debridement and wound bed preparation
- Limb Saving Procedure
- Education
Pressure Injury Monitoring, Prevention, and Treatment
- Vacuum assisted closure
- Comprehension therapy
- Application of growth factor
- Application of total contact cast or removal cast walkers
Enterostomal Care
Venous and Arterial Management
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Indication Wounds
- Problematic, non-healing wounds and ulcers (diabetic, venous, etc.)
- Infective wounds (gas gangrene, refractory osteomyelitis, necrotizing soft tissue infections)
- Acute traumatic ischemia, crush injuries, compartment syndromes
- Compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Thermal burn
Oncology
- Late radiation induced tissue damage and complications due to endarteritis
- Prophylactically adjunctive to therapeutic radiation, for preparation of surgery or implant procedures in previously irradiated fields
Primary Line of Treatment
- Air or gas embolism
- Decompression sickness
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Smoke inhalation
Other Indications
- Acute sensorineural hearing loss
- Intracranial abscesses
- Bell’s palsy
- Severe anemia
Research Indications
- HBOT in neurological illnesses-cerebral palsy, stroke, head injury
- HBOT as radiosensitizer in Glioblastoma multiforme and reirradiation of squamous cell CA
- Well-being