Wound and recovery care
Understanding how to care for wounds is important. When your wound isn’t healing as it should, our care team at Ascension Via Christi Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Therapy in Wichita, Kansas,is here to help. We listen to understand you and your health concerns. Then, we work with you to create a care plan that’s right for you.
Wound care specialists provide options for hard-to-treat wounds
Doctors and nurses at the wound care center at Via Christi Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Therapy in Wichita, Kansas,specialize in treating complex, slow-healing wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers and leg ulcers. We provide advanced wound-care treatments, such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), to help promote healing. Other wound healing treatments include:
- Bioengineered tissues
- Cellulitis therapy
- Compression therapy
- Infection management and prevention
- Negative pressure therapies
- Offloading pressure
- Wound cleaning and dressing
Wound care after surgery or an injury is critical for your health. And, doing regular self-checks, especially in hard-to-see places, may help prevent infection and serious complications. Bedside imaging technology provides real-time information about the type and extent of an infection without having to wait for a culture. We also have technology that helps measure oxygen levels in the skin without having to wait for a sonogram study.
Advanced wound healing with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
The hyperbaric chamber is a painless environment that delivers oxygen-rich therapy to promote wound healing. During hyperbaric oxygen therapy, concentrated oxygen quickly enters your bloodstream and helps heal the wound from the inside out. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a treatment for many conditions, including diabetic foot ulcers and slow-healing wounds.
Our care team takes the time to answer your questions and explain how hyperbaric oxygen therapy heals your wound. A doctor’s referral is required to schedule an appointment. For questions or to schedule an appointment, call 316-268-5881.
Hyperbaric chamber is used to treat many conditions
Our wound care doctors use hyperbaric oxygen therapy, along with traditional wound care therapies, to treat many adult health conditions. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment indications at Via Christi:
- Helping skin grafts (new skin put on a wound) to heal and stay healthy
- A bone infection (osteomyelitis) that keeps coming back and hasn't gotten better with regular medicine or surgery
- Damage to bone or soft tissue caused by radiation (osteoradionecrosis or radionecrosis). This treatment is used along with other regular treatments.
- Serious foot or leg wounds caused by diabetes, for patients who meet these requirements:
- You have diabetes and a wound is on your leg or foot because of it;
- Your wound is classified as Wagner grade III or higher; and
- Regular wound treatments haven't worked for you
Work with our wound care team to manage your recovery
Our doctors and nurses listen to understand you and your health concerns. We understand your emotions when wounds are not healing. We show you how to improve your wound-cleaning hygiene at home as part of your personalized recovery plan. Our goal is to help prevent rehospitalization for infection or wound-healing complications, and to improve your quality of life.
Your wound care team includes a fellowship-trained critical care doctor, infectious disease specialists, internal medicine doctors, a podiatrist, a nurse practitioner, a certified wound and ostomy nurse, registered nurses and wound technicians – all with specialized training in treating chronic wounds. Your care team will work with you to help manage your diet and medications throughout treatment.