Technologically advanced Wound Management & Hyperbaric Center opens
Home to new eight-person, multi-place hyperbaric chamber
Wound Management & Hyperbaric Center
5191 Babcock Street in Palm Bay
321-434-1788
Health First has opened its new, state-of-the-art Wound Management & Hyperbaric Center in Palm Bay. The medical staff will treat patients using the most advanced technology available, including a new eight-person, multi-place hyperbaric chamber.
Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) has been demonstrated to assist in healing conditions including non-healing diabetic wounds, soft-tissue or bone infections, and radiation tissue damage. HBO may also be used for the primary treatment of diseases such as decompression sickness in SCUBA divers, arterial gas embolism, and carbon monoxide poisoning.
"Having this level of wound management treatment and hyperbaric therapy available in one Center is an asset to our community," said Judy Killebrew, VP of Operations at The Heart Center. "The new Center not only offers patients the most advanced technology, but also a multi-disciplinary team of physicians, working under the two highly qualified Medical Directors - Wound Management Medical Director Sabir Ali, MD, and Hyperbaric Medical Director Michael Ott, MD."
Dr. Ott is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and in Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine.
Dr. Ali is board-certified in General Surgery and has completed specialized training in wound management. He has worked with the Wound Management Clinic at its previous location in Melbourne for nearly two years.
The newly opened Wound Management & Hyperbaric Center is located at 5191 Babcock Street in Palm Bay. The facility is a service of Holmes Regional Medical Center. The Wound Management offices, formerly located at Gateway Plaza off Hibiscus Street in Melbourne recently moved into the new Center in Palm Bay. For more information or assistance with referrals, call 321-434-1788.
"These two fields - wound management and hyperbaric oxygen - are closely related," said Killebrew. "It makes sense to locate them together to take advantage of the synergy."
The new Health First Wound Management & Hyperbaric Center will treat patients who may be diagnosed with one of the following 14 medical diagnoses, of which nine are directly related to compromised wound healing:
1. Air or gas embolism
2. Decompression sickness
3. Carbon monoxide poisoning
4. Clostridial myonecrosis
5. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections
6. Osteomyelitis (refractory)
7. Radiation tissue damage
8. Crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic ischemias
9. Thermal burns
10. Skin grafts and flaps (compromised)
11. Enhancement of healing in select problem wounds
12. Exceptional blood loss anemia
13. Intracranial abscess
14. Diabetic wounds of the lower extremities
Patients may access treatment at the new Wound Management & Hyperbaric Center by direct referral. Select emergency conditions can be treated based on established criteria. Please call the transfer center at 800-541-1928.
Health First Wound Management also has an office location at Cape Canaveral Hospital in Cocoa Beach, which can be reached by calling 321-868-8377.
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