Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Treatment

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St. Elizabeth’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine provides some of Boston’s most advanced treatment options for patients with wounds that don’t heal.

In new, state-of-the art facilities equipped with one of the area’s few hospital-based hyperbaric oxygen chambers, a multidisciplinary team of physicians, podiatrists, vascular and plastic surgeons and wound-care nurses offers expert, compassionate care.  The team regularly treats patients suffering from non-healing wounds resulting from diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy, radiation, trauma or other conditions.

The Center’s physicians, all faculty members at the Tufts University School of Medicine, carefully evaluate each patient to determine why a wound does not heal.  They then tailor an individualized treatment plan aimed not just at healing but also at preventing wound recurrence, maintaining mobility and preserving limbs.  The team is committed to helping patients resume the normal activities of daily life.

Learn about John Crowley, who benefitted from specialized wound care.

Evaluation and treatment options

The Center offers a full range of medical and surgical options.  These include advanced therapies such as biografts, which work with the body’s own cells to repair damaged tissue, and full contact casts, which protect limbs, promote ulcer healing, reduce swelling and allow patients to walk.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

The Center houses two hyperbaric oxygen chambers. These are used to increase oxygen in the blood to promote healing of certain approved problem wounds.  Wound Center physicians collaborate closely with patients’ referring physicians throughout the treatment process.  If needed, the Center can provide referrals to other St. Elizabeth’s specialists or to educators in St. Elizabeth’s Diabetes Center.

Services are carried out on St. Elizabeth’s convenient Boston campus, where free parking for patients and inexpensive visitor parking are readily available.