Talk with your provider to see if our Wound Care services are the appropriate next step in your health care plan.
A non-healing or hard-to-heal wound can be difficult to live with and manage. At Massena Hospital's Wound Care Center, we provide advanced, outpatient care for complex wounds so you can regain your health and get back to doing the things you enjoy.
Wounds that take longer than a month to heal may require specialized care. These wounds are considered chronic, and can be caused by:
Non-healing wounds affect more than 6.5 million Americans a year. If you are dealing with a chronic wound, you are not alone; St. Lawrence Health can help.
The Wound Care suite is located at Massena Hospital, 1 Hospital Drive, Massena, NY 13662.
Office Phone: 315-769-4392
Our multidisciplinary team addresses the needs of our patients who have wounds that are not responding to conventional treatment.
Our team develops a personalized plan that matches each patient with techniques that include:
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a medical treatment that increases the amount of oxygen in your blood, allowing oxygen to pass more quickly through the plasma into wounds to heal them. HBOT chambers surround patients with 100% oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure.
During HBOT, the only sensation you will experience occurs during the pressurization phase. It takes approximately 20 minutes to reach pressure, and the slowly-increasing pressure will push on your eardrums. It is the same feeling you would experience when landing in an airplane or diving to the bottom of a swimming pool. Your hyperbaric nurse will instruct you through different methods of relieving this ear pressure.
HBOT treatment is very safe. Massena Hospital's Wound Care Center has strict procedures that assure your safety and make your treatment comfortable. Before your first treatment, you will be given a thorough orientation, where we will take the time to answer all of your questions and concerns.
There is typically no benefit to increasing the level of oxygen in the body for healthy individuals. People with certain medical conditions do, however, benefit from increased levels of oxygen. Those benefits include:
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