The St. Francis Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center has added the state-of-the-art BARA-MED XD Monoplace Hyperbaric Chamber, making St. Francis Hospital the first hospital in Georgia to offer this cutting edge technology. The BARA-MED XD Monoplace Hyperbaric Chamber creates a healing environment that can help save the limbs of people with diabetes, heal wounds, save damaged tissue and reverse the effects of exposure to life-threatening events.
"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has the potential to save limbs by increasing tissue oxygenation, promoting new tissue growth,” says Dr Luther Wolff Jr., medical director of the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center.
During hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a patient breathes 100 percent oxygen at two and one half times normal atmospheric pressure. As a result, the blood carries larger amounts of oxygen to organs and tissues, promoting quicker wound healing. The therapy is usually administered two hours a day, five days a week, for up to two months. The BARA-MED XD offers added comfort for patients.
Its SMOOTH-RIDE technology reduces ear pain often associated with hyperbaric treatment. Its larger chamber and specially designed lift can also accommodate patients weighing up to 700 pounds and those who lack mobility and use wheelchairs. Other conditions treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the center are failing skin grafts/flaps, bone infection and radiation necrosis.
For more information or an appointment, call the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, at 706-257-7680.
