Wound Care

Anibal R. Gauto, MD, Medical Director, and Tom Cifrodella, Program Director, stand beside one of the new hyperbaric oxygen chambers in the Eisenhower Wound Care Center.

he Eisenhower Wound Care Center features two state-of-the-art mono-place hyperbaric chambers. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy delivers concentrated levels of oxygen to a patient to aid in wound healing. Eisenhower also utilizes modern methodologies — each patient receives a treatment plan based on specific needs.

Comprehensive wound care includes an assessment of the entire patient because so many variables exist that can impair wound healing. Wound care assessment and management include characterizing the wound, ensuring adequate oxygenation, ensuring adequate nutrition (protein-calorie malnutrition and vitamin and mineral deficiencies may impair healing), and the treatment of infection and pain management. Treatment plans are based on the full assessment of each patient and his or her specific wound care needs.

To establish the best Wound Care Center possible, Eisenhower partnered with Diversified Clinical Services. Diversified manages 300 wound care centers throughout the United States and is meticulous in the way they operate. Eisenhower has access and will contribute to Diversified’s wound care data collection center which has wound data from more than two million patients. This data will be available to Eisenhower Wound Care Center physicians for analysis, research, publishing, teaching and learning.

For more information about the Eisenhower Wound Care Center, please call 760-834-3790. Appointments are required.

The Eisenhower Wound Care Center is located on the Eisenhower campus in the Bannan Building, suite 1109.