The Virtua Wound Healing Center is located on the campus of Virtua Berlin, where comprehensive wound care and prevention services are provided in a comfortable outpatient facility.
The Center is staffed with experts devoted exclusively to wound healing therapies and treatments. Advanced therapies include hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which allows patients to breathe in a greater amount of pure oxygen than they normally would. Oxygen helps to improve blood supply, which generates healthy tissue. In turn, the healthy tissue supports faster, deeper wound healing.
Wound-care specialists include:
- Physical therapists
- Nutritionists
- Registered dietitians
- Advanced practice nurses
- Endocrinologists
- Physicians specializing in infectious disease
- Surgeons, including foot and ankle, plastic, vascular and general surgeons
Wound management plans are customized based on individual patient needs and may include the following services:
- Special dressings
- Pressure relief
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Debridement
- Vascular assessment
- Edema control
- Nutritional support
- Pain management
- Diabetes education
- Infection control
- Pain assessment and management
- Patient and family education
- Lifelong follow-up care to minimize recurrence