Wound and Hyperbaric Center
7301 Hennessey Blvd • Suite 103
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
(Located on the left side of the Bone & Joint Clinic)
Phone (225) 765-4286 • Fax (225) 765-5976
About the Wound and Hyperbaric Center
Our Lady of the Lake Wound and Hyperbaric Center is an outpatient program that focuses on chronic and non-healing wounds. Using advanced treatment modalities and a case management model, we help patients improve the quality of their lives. In partnership with physicians, nurses and multiple medical disciplines, we provide invaluable care for patients.
For patients with diabetes, vascular disease, or simply being bed-ridden, chronic wounds are health threat. We work in close coordination with your primary care physician offering frequent updates on your treatment and recovery. We apply evidence-based wound-care treatment and technologies with aggressive, outcome-based care and wound management.
Before your treatment is complete you’ll learn about preventing and avoiding future injuries and wounds, which may include following up with your primary physician or other specialists. We’ll also teach you how to respond rapidly to injuries how to avoid chronic wounds.
The Wound and Hyperbaric Center focuses on the treatment of wounds in patients with diabetes, compromised flaps and grafts and other types of chronic wounds.
If you have a skin graft or flap, your primary care physician will consider referring you to our Center when:
- Swelling and/or erythema is present at bed site
- The graft or flap is cyanotic or partially necrotic
- Wound separation occurs, which is the loss of vascularity or fibrin and collagen attachments
- Any signs or symptoms of infection become evident
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a newly added service at Our Lady of the Lake which strengthens the mechanisms your body uses to heal wounds. While relaxing comfortably in a chamber at greater-than normal atmospheric pressure, you’ll breathe pure oxygen, which saturates your blood plasma and allows it to carry up to 20 times the normal amount of healing oxygen to your body’s tissues. About one in five wound care patients require HBOT treatments, which are provided by physicians at the Wound and Hyperbaric Center, who are specialty-trained in hyperbaric medicine, and our highly trained clinical hyperbaric technicians and staff.
Approved indications for HBOT which are currently reimbursed by Medicare, HMOs and other insurance providers include:
- Diabetic ulcers of the lower extremities
- Soft tissue radionecrosis and osteoradionecrosis
- Chronic refractory osteomyelitis
- Compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Actinomycosis
- Crush injury/acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Progressive necrotizing infections (necrotizing fasciitis)
- Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
Wound and Hyperbaric Center Mission
Our mission is to improve the quality of life for all of our patients. That means aggressively managing wounds to ensure they heal quickly and completely. We work in conjunction with referring physicians as partners to determine a complete set of wound care protocols to address each patient’s needs. By providing you with dedicated and specialized attention, we’ll help you to return to a full life free from the pain of chronic wounds.