Clear Lake Regional Medical Center

Wound Care

The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
1125 Highway 3 North, Suite 100
Texas City, Texas 77591
409-938-5050

The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Mainland Medical Center applies the newest medical advances to heal persistent wounds. The center’s team of physicians, nurses and technicians are specially trained to manage chronic wounds and complex injuries.

The Wound Clinic physicians and nurses work with patients and their physicians in treating chronic wounds caused by diabetes, poor circulation or other conditions. Our unique team treats many wounds that have resisted healing after months and even years of traditional treatment.

Approach to Patient Care

The staff thoroughly evaluates all potential causes to determine why a wound isn’t healing and develops a personalized, effective treatment regimen for each patient.

What should I expect on my first visit?

Our staff will evaluate your wound; review your medical history and general health. You may need blood work and other special tests that provide information about blood and oxygen flow in the wound area.

What will my treatment involve?

When your test results are in, a treatment program will be designed based on your special needs.

Wound Treatment Indications

Referral to the Center can be made whenever one or more of the following criteria have been met:

• Full or partial thickness wounds that fail to show significant clinical improvements in four weeks
• Full thickness wounds with exposed tendon, bone, and/or joint
• Wounds in compromised patients, especially those with diabetes mellitus
• Necrotizing soft tissue (subcutaneous, muscle, fascia) infections
• Refractory Osteomyelitis
• Radiation tissue injury (soft tissue and osteoradionecrosis)
• Crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemic injuries
• Compromised or failing skin graft and flaps

Wound Treatment Methods

Based upon the identification of underlying causes of poor wound healing, the Center can provide advanced wound therapy as indicated, including:

• Aggressive conventional wound care and clinic wound debridement
• Compression therapy for lower extremity edema control
• Vacuum‐Assisted Wound Closure
• Clinic application of tissue replacement products
• Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy treatment to correct tissue hypoxia

Individualize wound treatment is dependent upon the type and severity of the wound. Wound treatment can include removal of unhealthy tissue, high pressure oxygen therapy and the use of growth factors. The Center can also provide consultation with plastic, peripheral vascular and orthopedic surgeons and podiatrists.

The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Center has three mono-place hyperbaric chambers. For more information, contact the Center at 409-938-5050.