Southeast Missouri Hospital

Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center
at Southeast Missouri Hospital

Experienced physicians... Access to support services and staff... A clinical nursing staff with hyperbaric technician certification... Proven clinical pathways... Leading edge treatments... Aggressive medical and surgical management....These are the hallmarks of Southeast Missouri Hospital’s Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center.

Southeast’s Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine team works closely with physicians and patients in dealing with complex chronic wound care issues. Specialized services include an exam by a chronic wound care specialist, development of a treatment plan to meet each patient’s individual needs, dressing changes, instruction about correct wound care and prevention of new injuries and referrals for other medical care and services to help patients recover.

The Hospital operates two Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) complements care provided through our highly successful, long-established wound care program. HBOT is a specialized treatment that has been proven highly effective for a number of medical conditions. The number of treatments required depends upon the severity of the wound.

During Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, a patient breaths 100% oxygen in a chamber pressurized to greater than sea level. This allows significantly more amounts of oxygen to be dissolved in the bloodstream to improve and accelerate the healing process.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can effectively treat:

• Acute Carbon Monoxide Intoxication
• Decompression Illness
• Gas Embolism
• Gas Gangrene
• Acute Traumatic Peripheral Ischemia
• Crush Injuries & Suturing of Severed Limbs
• Progressive Necrotizing Infections
• Acute Peripheral Arterial Insufficiency
• Treatment of Compromised Skin Grafts
• Chronic Refractory Osteomyelitis
• Osteoradionecrosis
• Soft Tissue Radionecrosis
• Cyanide Poisoning
• Actinomycosis, Refractory
• Diabetic Ulcers

The personalized care at Southeast’s Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center is provided by a team of highly-trained professionals committed to helping people with wounds that resist healing. Our Medical Team includes: Paul Spence, M.D., John Schoenberger, M.D. and Julie Anderson, M.D.

Services offered by the Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center:

• Multi-system history and physical assessment
• Debridement
• Therapeutic dressing selection
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Compression therapy
• Lab work on location
• Coordination of Home Health and extended care
• Patient transportation coordination
• Patient education in areas such as nutrition, diabetes, skin care, prevention techniques for pressure-sensitive areas, hyperbaric oxygen therapy orientation
• Infectious Disease specialist on staff
• Specialty services including physical therapy, occupational therapy and orthotics
• Consistent progress reports to referring physicians
• Involvement of patient’s primary care physicians on an ongoing basis