Wound care
Wound care involves medical interventions to heal a wound after injury. Specialized treatment is provided for wounds that are nonhealing or refuse to heal on their own. A vital aspect of treatment includes learning how to properly dress and care for a wound.
Wound care specialists in Las Vegas
Our experienced wound and reconstructive specialists treat you with a compassionate touch.
At Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, we take a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and integrated approach to wound care. Our team treats small, large, complex and chronic wounds.
Expert advice, available 24/7
Free health-related information is just a phone call away. Our nurses help you understand your symptoms, treatment options and procedures. They will also help you find a provider or specialist and schedule an appointment.
Free health-related information is just a phone call away. Our nurses help you understand your symptoms, treatment options and procedures. They will also help you find a provider or specialist and schedule an appointment.
Types of wounds we treat
Caring for wounds requires dedication and great skill, so we give you access to specialists with expertise in many different types of wounds, including:
- Abscesses
- Burn injuries
- Complex injuries
- Crush injuries
- Degloving injuries
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Diabetic foot wounds
- Facial injuries
- Fournier's gangrene
- Gangrene
- Hidradenitis suppurative
- Injuries requiring replantation
- Lacerations
- Medication reactions
- Medication reactions
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Necrotizing soft tissue disorders
- Nonhealing surgical sites
- Peripheral vascular wounds
- Pressure ulcers
- Skin sloughing disorders
- Skin tears
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS)
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN)
- Traumatic injuries
- Venous stasis wounds
- Wounds requiring replantation
Services provided in our wound care center
Our approach to treating wounds, including complex and chronic wounds, is integrated, comprehensive and involves multiple disciplines. We have built a team of specialists who excel at caring for adults and children afflicted with a large variety of challenging wounds, including burns.
Diving illnesses and injury
We are a United States Air Force, United States Navy, Association of Diving Contractors International and Divers Alert Network-certified decompression illness and arterial gas embolism treatment facility.
At our experienced Divers Alert Network facility, we offer:
- Around-the-clock and year-round regional decompression illness and arterial gas embolism coverage
- Care for carbon monoxide poisoning
- Emergency in-water recompression
- Trauma care
- Treatment for dive complications
- Wound healing
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
Our hyperbaric facility provides 24/7 care for life-threatening illnesses, including decompression illness, arterial gas embolism, cyanide poisoning and smoke inhalation.
What to expect
HBOT delivers 100 percent oxygen under pressure in a large and comfortable chamber. You can relax while listening to music or watching television, and will breathe normally during the procedure, increasing the amount of oxygen in your blood.
HBOT treatments are typically prescribed five days per week, for approximately one hour each day, for 20 days or longer. The amount of treatment you receive depends on your plan.
Potential benefits
HBOT offers many potential benefits, including:
- Increasing the elasticity of red blood cells
- Reducing edema
- Suppressing autoimmune responses
- Helping blood carry more oxygen throughout the body
- Promoting healing in tissue
- Activating white blood cells to fight against infection
In addition, this procedure can improve:
- Bone repair
- Healing of hypoxic wounds
- Nerve cell regeneration
- Tissue salvage in burns
- Viability of tissue flaps