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Wound Care Center
Wound Care Center :: Wound Care Services :: Our Location :: Wound Care Staff
Wound Care Center
The Wound Care Center is a "Special Care Unit"
for patients requiring hyperbaric oxygen treatment, hydro therapy,
wound vac treatment, and general woundcare/dressing changes. Hyperbaric
oxygen is a medical treatment that places the entire body under
increased atmospheric pressure while the patient breathes oxygen.
The treatment may be recommended for patients who have:
- Air or gas embolism
- Carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation
- Clostridial myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
- Crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic
ischemia
- Decompression sickness
- A need for enhanced healing in selected problem wounds
- Exceptional blood loss (anemia)
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections (subcutaneous tissue, muscle,
fascia)
- Osteomyelitis refractory
- Radiation tissue damage (osteoradionecrosis)
- Skin grafts and flaps (compromised)
* Thermal burns
The Wound Care Center provides the treatments in private,
monoplace chambers that are seven feet long and 26 inches in diameter.
The chambers are made of transparent material and can be adapted
to treat critically ill patients who require monitoring. Communication
is through an intercom system, and the patient can watch television,
listen to the radio or simply relax while being treated.
Wound Care Services
Care is provided in the Wound Care Center to patients
of all ages, except for children under one year of age who need
mechanical ventilation.
Treatments and procedures provided in the unit include:
- Monitoring (before, during and after treatments)
- Transcutaneous oxygen and carbon dioxide monitoring (outside
and inside the chamber)
- Hyperbaric oxygen treatments
- Mechanical ventilation
- Medication/intravenous fluid administration and maintenance
- Wound care
- Training of students and residents (medical, nursing, podiatry)
Our Location
The Wound Care Center is on the third floor of University
Hospital at 4502 Medical Drive in the South Texas Medical Center
and at the University Center for Community Health at 701 South
Zarzamora.
Hours (UHS)
7 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
7 a.m. - Noon Saturday
(210) 358-4320
Hours (TDI)
8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
(210) 358-7250
Wound Care Staff
Nicolas E. Walsh, M.D., is professor and chair
of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). He is
certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Subspecialization in Pain Management and the American Board of
Pain Medicine. He received his medical degree from The University
of Colorado School of Medicine and completed his internship and
residency at UTHSCSA.
Merritt G. Davis, Jr., D.O., is medical director
of the Hyperbaric Medicine & Wound Care Center at University
Hospital. He came to our institution with a background in Aerospace
Medicine acquired at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
He completed his training at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
Medicine, Pennsylvania. He is an assistant professor in the Department
of Rehabilitation Medicine at UTHSCSA.
R. Brian Smith, M.D., spends an average of
20 hours per week at the Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Center
at University Hospital. Dr. Smith returns to us after retiring
as Chair of Anesthesiology at UTHSCSA. His training was at the
Medical College of Virginia and the University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine, as well as Long Beach Memorial Hospital, California.
Dr. Smith is now a Clinical Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation
Medicine at UTHSCSA.
Care in the Hyperbaric Medicine & Wound Care Center
is provided by certified hyperbaric technologists who are also
respiratory care practitioners, and registered nurses who are
trained for treatment of problem wounds.
For more information we invite you and your colleagues
to tour our facility. Tours and consultations may be arranged
by calling the Hyperbaric Medicine Center at (210) 358-4320. For
more information on this program or University Health System,
please call (210) 358-3000 or write to:
University Health System
4502 Medical Drive
San Antonio, Texas
78229-4493
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