Wound Care & Hyperbarics

The Rush Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, established in 1997, offers individualized care for acute and traumatic wounds. As the most advanced and comprehensive wound care facility in the region, we provide a true multidisciplinary approach with medical and surgical specialists together under one roof. This involves identifying all factors in optimizing wound healing and formulating a complete and individualized treatment plan for every patient. We focus on expediting the time it takes to get you examined, tested, diagnosed and started on an appropriate treatment plan. We will work collaboratively with your insurance company to assist in getting the care you need. Through the use of the most advanced wound care techniques and treatments available, our specialized medical professionals will improve your wound healing. 

Who benefits from visiting a wound center? 

The best candidates for services are those individuals with acute or chronic wounds from any cause including:

• Trauma
• Vascular disease
• Infection
• Diabetic wounds
• Radiation wounds
• Post-surgical complications
• Chronic ulcers

Our wound treatments and therapies include:

• Appropriate wound debridement
• Compression therapy
• Bioengineered tissue substitutes
• Negative pressure wound therapy
• Total contact casting
• The newest topical ointments and wound dressings
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Advance Wound Healing Therapy

Rush offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), one of the most advanced treatment options available for healing wounds. This treatment involves breathing pure oxygen in a sealed environment that’s been pressurized to help push oxygen into the blood plasma. HBOT stimulates growth of blood vessels in damaged tissues and is effective in fighting some types of infection.

Conditions That Benefit from HBOT

HBOT uses the body's natural healing processes to help treat a variety of conditions, including:

• Certain wounds that are healing slowly or not at all in a person with diabetes
• Tissue damaged from radiation therapy
• A skin flap with inadequate blood supply
• Certain types of infections of the bone

The Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center is open for regular office hours Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The center is located on the first floor at Ochsner Rush Medical Center, 1314 19th Avenue in Meridian. The center is also available after hours and on weekends for emergency hyperbaric services. The on-call hyperbaric physician will be notified to answer questions or arrange appropriate treatment. Hyperbaric treatments can be scheduled on an inpatient or outpatient basis, depending on the patient's condition and requirements.