Wound Care Services

Our wound center at Fulton County Medical Center (FCMC) offers a variety of specialized services to meet our patients’ wound care needs. We work closely with Team Home Health and can provide nutritional interventions to treat the whole individual.

For more serious wounds, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment approved by the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Society and involves breathing 100% oxygen while enclosed in a Hyperbaric oxygen chamber. The relaxing treatment can be completed while patients listen to music or watch movies and can be effective for a range of medical conditions and wounds.

Chronic refractory osteomyelitis

Chronic refractory osteomyelitis is an inflammation of bone tissue caused by an infection in the bloodstream or near the affected bone(s).

Diabetic ulcers

About 15 percent of diabetic patients develop ulcers, an open sore or wound on the feet that can become seriously infected without treatment.

Enhancement of healing in selected problem wounds

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can speed up the healing time in problem wounds that might not heal on their own and would take a significant amount of time.

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs when the oxygen in your red blood cells is replaced by carbon monoxide in environments where there is not enough natural oxygen to breathe.

Acute traumatic ischemia

Acute traumatic ischemia is a technical term for traumatic injuries like a crush injury, compartment syndrome and others.

Crush injuries

Crush injuries can happen at home, at work, in car accidents, and any time part of your body is crushed between objects or moving parts.

Arterial wounds

When soft tissue in the body doesn’t receive adequate blood flow, arteries are at risk for developing ulcers or becoming damaged. These injuries are very slow to heal without additional support from treatments like HBOT.

Delayed radiation injury

Even when radiation is effective at eliminating cancer cells, the side effects can create complications and injuries of their own to treat separately.

Soft tissue radionecrosis

Radiation that causes soft tissue death from damaged blood vessels is called soft tissue radionecrosis (STRN).

Bony necrosis (osteoradionecrosis)

Radiation that causes bone death from damaged blood vessels is called bony necrosis.

Compromised skin grafts and flaps

Patients who receive skin grafts or flaps may experience complications or infections after the procedure that need to be treated as wounds.

Central retinal artery occlusion intracranial abscess

HBOT is one of the only effective treatment options for patients with sudden and dramatic vision loss due to a lack of oxygenated blood to the retinas.

Our wound care staff will be happy to answer any questions you have by calling 717-485-2855.

FCMC’s qualified staff are here to help you during your healing process. Medical Director, Vicki Ellis, M.D, WCC, DWC, CWSP Melody Stouder, DPM Merrill McKenzie, MD John D. Goldman, MD (Telehealth) Jeffrey S. Mandak, M.D. F.A.C.C