Wound Care and Hyperbaric Treatment Center

Most wounds heal with time. When they do not heal, specialists at The George Washington University Hospital's Wound Care and Hyperbaric Treatment Center can provide interdisciplinary care that uses many of of the latest wound-healing techniques for patients who are seeking relief for their acute and chronic wounds.

Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Care

The range of services provided by the staff at the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Treatment Center includes: physician support and assessment in the areas of infectious diseases, podiatry, vascular surgery, plastic surgery, orthopedics, and wound care.  

The center's primary focus is to heal acute and chronic wounds.  Treatments offered are evidence-based and may include skin substitutes, medicated dressings such as gels, alginates and silver foams, compression therapy, negative pressure therapy, and chemical or surgical debridement.  Hyperbaric medicine has proven to stimulate healing in radiation cystitis, diabetic ulcers, ischemic skin grafts/flaps and sickle cell patients who have wounds.

Appointments at the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Treatment Center at The George Washington University Hospitalare available within 24 hours of referral and walk-in patients are accepted. The center is easily accessible from within the hospital, and is just steps from the Foggy Bottom Metro station.

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Specialists at the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center at The George Washington University Hospital treat the following conditions:

Wounds

• Diabetic foot ulcers
• Chronic venous ulcers or venous insufficiency
• Arterial ulcers
• Pressure ulcers
• Burns, trauma wounds
• Non-healing surgical wounds, ostomy wounds
• Resistant bone infection wounds/Refractory Osteomyelitis
• Sickle cell wounds
• Wounds of unknown cause

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

• Air or gas embolism
• Arterial insufficiency
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Compromised skin grafts and flaps
• Decompression sickness
• Crush injury
• Intracranial abscess
• Gas gangrene
• Radiation injury (soft or bony necrosis
• Necrotizing fasciitis
• Severe anemia
• Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss