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Wound Care Center
If you have a wound that has not healed, consider seeking help from Johnston Therapeutic Wound Center. The methods employed by the center have established an impressive record of healing wounds that others thought hopeless, including many that may have required amputation.
Our staff is a unique team of trained physicians, nurses and therapists whose combined knowledge creates a multidisciplinary approach to wound management.
We are dedicated to caring for people with wounds that have resisted traditional means of healing.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Carefully researched methods allow patients to receive state-of-the-art treatment of wounds that have resisted healing despite months, or even years of conventional treatment.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is an intermittent treatment of 100% oxygen at increased atmospheric pressure, roughly equivalent to what a SCUBA diver would experience at around 30 feet below the water's surface.
Patients receive treatment while they relax in a transparent, cylindrical chamber.
This therapy promotes blood vessel formation, increases oxygen flow to damaged tissues, reduces swelling, allows the body to kill germs and promotes healing, all by supplying 100% oxygen to the body at a high concentration. Only about 15% of Wound Healing Center patients require hyperbaric oxygen therapy, but for those who do, the improvement can be substantial.
Indications: UHMS Approved Uses for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Air or Gas Embolism
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation
- Carbon Monoxide Complicated By Cyanide Poisoning Clostridial Myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
- Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
- Decompression Sickness
- Enhancement in Healing in Selected Problem Wounds
- Exceptional Blood Loss (anemia)
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections (subcutaneous tissue, muscle, fascia)
- Osteomyelitis (chronic refactory)
- Radiation Tissue Damage (osteo and soft tissue radionecrosis)
- Skin Grafts and Flaps (compromised)
- Thermal Burns
- Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen in Intracranial Abscess
- Additional Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Spider Bites - brown recluse
- Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning
- Cyanide Poisoning
- Selecte refractory anaerobic infection
- Pyoderma
For more information about the Wound Healing Center or to make an appointment,
call 919-938-7716.
Johnston Therapeutic Wound Center
Johnston Medical Mall
514 N. Bright Leaf Blvd., Suite 1700
Smithfield, NC 27577
919-938-7716
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