A wound is considered non healing if it has not reduced in size by 50% in 4 weeks. Once it has passed that marker, it is considered a chronic wound. Giving a wound the proper environment and addressing factors impeding healing help get the wound on the proper tract to healing.
There are three main approaches to bone infection: IV antibiotics, bone debridement or combination of IV antibiotics and debridement. We will arrange treatment with infectious disease specialists and a surgeon to optimize your outcome and prevent further bone loss. The use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy has proven to be synergistic with use of IV antibiotics to assist with removal of a bone infection.
When the valves in your veins fail they cause pooling of blood in your legs. Eventually you will get a sore that drains a lot and will not heal. We work with your lifestyle to provide compression to get you healed, and then work with you to keep you healed.
When you don’t have proper blood supply to an area, you will develop painful sores that will not heal. After an initial evaluation we work with our trusted vascular surgeons to obtain options to get more blood to your tissues.
Split thickness skin grafts (STSG) take a thin shaving of skin from a part of the body, using a mesher to enlarge it, we apply it to a healthy wound bed to assist in healing it quicker. AZ Wound & Hyperbaric Medicine is the only place where this can be done in an outpatient wound clinic setting. However, if the wound size is greater than 100 sq cm, we will work with our surgical team to have this done in the operating room.
Patients with large tissue loss due to pressure ulcers or trauma require the assistance of plastic surgery to move muscle to allow the tissue defect to heal. Muscle flaps are complicated and require a significant amount of preparation of tissues, nutrition, and post operative follow up. We will prepare you for outcome maximization of your flap and work closely with one of our plastic surgeons to coordinate your surgery.
Depending on the size and location of the burn, we can care for this in the outpatient wound clinic. Complex or large burns require admission to the hospital with surgical reconstruction. For thermal, electrical, or chemical burn of a smaller size, we will prescribe proper dressings to be done at home and assist with removal of unhealthy tissues in the wound clinic. This will expedite your ability to heal.
From road rash to large tissue defects, we care for complex wounds that may or may not require surgery. After a trauma occurs swelling, pain and bleeding need to be addressed. We work with you to improve your tissue quality to allow the traumatized tissues heal quickly.
Lymphedema can be one sided or both sided. We have multiple forms of edema wraps to assist with whatever level of lymphedema you may be dealing with. We perform serial wraps on a weekly basis to assist with removal of excess lymphatic fluid. Once we reach an optimal size, we work with you to find the best method of controlling your lymphedema. This may be in the form of compression stockings, lymphedema pumps, or a combination of both. We work with each person’s mobility to find a treatment option that best fits your needs.
One of the only ostomy clinics in Arizona, we work closely with our ostomy certified wound nurses to have you fitted and problem solve your ostomy. If you are having problems with leaking, or skin ulcer/irritation please make an appointment with our ostomy nurse. We can order ostomy supplies once you establish care for home delivery.
Unfortunately it is all too common to see a prosthetic or AFO causing skin irritation or breakdown. We will work with your prosthetist to adjust your prosthetic and work with you to maximize your mobility while healing your wound.
Devastating soft tissue infection that remove a large portion of your tissues require close follow up in wound clinic and coordination with home health. We perform daily hyperbaric oxygen therapy to maximize your tissues to improve in quality and heal at a faster rate. If needed, we work closely with our surgeons to skin graft or reconstruct when the tissues have been optimized.
Sometimes with ongoing incontinence issues we develop skin irritation that becomes a cycle of ongoing skin breakdown. We help put in place a treatment plan to minimize skin irritation and help protect the skin from recurrence of the problem.
After a trauma a vessel may rupture causing a collection of blood under the skin surface. This may result in tissue death above the hematoma or large collection of blood under the skin. It will need to be lanced and open to allow the blood to drain, followed by dressings to allow the tissues to heal.
Complications after a surgery can happen to anyone. Sometimes a small part of the incision or the whole incision comes apart. We work with you and your surgeon to get your wound healed as soon as possible. Understanding that this impacts your day to day capabilities, we will put together a treatment plan that best fits your lifestyle. Cosmetic incision to Complex organ transplants, we treat them all.
A wound is considered non healing if it has not reduced in size by 50% in 4 weeks. Once it has passed that marker, it is considered a chronic wound. Giving a wound the proper environment and addressing factors impeding healing help get the wound on the proper tract to healing.
There are three main approaches to bone infection: IV antibiotics, bone debridement or combination of IV antibiotics and debridement. We will arrange treatment with infectious disease specialists and a surgeon to optimize your outcome and prevent further bone loss. The use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy has proven to be synergistic with use of IV antibiotics to assist with removal of a bone infection.
When the valves in your veins fail they cause pooling of blood in your legs. Eventually you will get a sore that drains a lot and will not heal. We work with your lifestyle to provide compression to get you healed, and then work with you to keep you healed.
When you don’t have proper blood supply to an area, you will develop painful sores that will not heal. After an initial evaluation we work without trusted vascular surgeons to obtain options to get more blood to your tissues.
Split thickness skin grafts (STSG) take a thin shaving of skin from a part of the body, using a mesher to enlarge it, we apply it to a healthy wound bed to assist in healing it quicker. The Dhillon Institute is the only location where this can be done in an outpatient wound clinic setting. However, if the wound size is greater than 100 sq cm, we will work with our surgical team to have this done in the operating room.
Patients with large tissue loss due to pressure ulcers or trauma require the assistance of plastic surgery to move muscle to allow the tissue defect to heal. Muscle flaps are complicated and require a significant amount of preparation of tissues, nutrition, and post operative follow up. We will prepare you for outcome maximization of your flap and work closely with one of our plastic surgeons to coordinate your surgery.
Depending on the size and location of the burn, we can care for this in the outpatient wound clinic. Complex or large burns require admission to the hospital with surgical reconstruction. For thermal, electrical, or chemical burn of a smaller size, we will prescribe proper dressings to be done at home and assist with removal of unhealthy tissues in the wound clinic. This will expedite your ability to heal.
From road rash to large tissue defects, we care for complex wounds that may or may not require surgery. After a trauma occurs swelling, pain and bleeding need to be addressed. We work with you improve your tissue quality to allow the traumatized tissues heal quickly.
Lymphedema can be one sided or both sided. We have multiple forms of edema wraps to assist with whatever level of lymphedema you may be dealing with. We perform serial wraps on a weekly basis to assist with removal of excess lymphatic fluid. Once we reach an optimal size, we work with you to find the best method of controlling your lymphedema. This may be in the form of compression stockings, lymphedema pumps, or a combination of both. We work with each person’s mobility to find a treatment option that best fits your needs.
One of the only ostomy clinics in Arizona, we work closely with our ostomy certified wound nurses to have you fitted and problem solve your ostomy. If you are having problems with leaking, or skin ulcer/irritation please make an appointment with our ostomy nurse. We can order ostomy supplies once you establish care for home delivery.
Unfortunately it is all too common to see a prosthetic or AFO causing skin irritation or breakdown. We will work with your prosthetist to adjust your prosthetic and work with you to maximize your mobility while healing your wound.
Devastating soft tissue infection that remove a large portion of your tissues require close follow up in wound clinic and coordination with home health. We perform daily hyperbaric oxygen therapy to maximize your tissues to improve in quality and heal at a faster rate. If needed, we work closely with our surgeons to skin graft or reconstruct when the tissues have been optimized.
Sometimes with ongoing incontinence issues we develop skin irritation that becomes a cycle of ongoing skin breakdown. We help put in place a treatment plan to minimize skin irritation and help protect the skin from recurrence of the problem.
After a trauma a vessel may rupture causing a collection of blood under the skin surface. This may result in tissue death above the hematoma or large collection of blood under the skin. It will need to be lanced and open to allow the blood to drain, followed by dressings to allow the tissues to heal.
Complications after a surgery can happen to anyone. Sometimes a small part of the incision or the whole incision comes apart. We work with you and your surgeon to get your wound healed as soon as possible. Understanding that this impacts your day to day capabilities, we will put together a treatment plan that best fits your lifestyle. Cosmetic incision to Complex organ transplants, we treat them all.
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Prevention is worth a pound of cure. We will work with your insurance to obtain the proper seating and bedding to maximize an individual’s ability to maintain their mobility. Low air loss mattress, wheel chairs, or mobility assist devices are part of what we can help arrange for at home.
For home bound patients we will arrange for a nurse to come out to your home and perform dressing change based on the providers recommendations. We can assist with wound care supplies to be delivered to your home as well if a family member is willing to do dressings.
An array of stimulatory products are available to apply to your wound. They are biological that at one point in time were alive. When applied to a wound they stimulate your bodies own healing potential to move in the direction of your wound to heal at a faster rate.
Lymphedema can occur anywhere and requires lymph therapy followed by compression therapy. The proper devices to assist with lymph therapy followed by manageable compression devices is the key to success. We will work with you and your lifestyle to find a treatment that fits you.
Certain types of wounds benefit from a Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) assist device. We will work with home health to have the device delivered to your home and applied by a nurse. The device is used temporarily to help expedite the contracture of your wound.
Helping you figure out issues you may have with fitting or skin conditions surrounding your ostomy. Our certified ostomy nurses will focus on what type of appliance you may need and address any skin conditions along side Dr. Dhillon to prevent breakdown or skin leakage. When making an appointment please specify for the Ostomy clinic.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a type of treatment used to speed up the healing of carbon monoxide poisoning, gangrene, and wounds that won’t heal. It is also used for infections in which tissues are starved for oxygen.
An ultrasound therapy using different types of fluids to debride wounds gently without pain.
The only facility who is able to perform skin grafting is the out patient wound clinic, this significantly reduces the time to heal a larger wound with a healthy wound bed.
Some wounds require debridement to stimulate wound healing. We provide topical anesthetics to anesthetize your tissues at your intake to minimize any discomfort.
Total contact casting (TCC) is a walking cast that is changed out on a weekly basis. It keeps you mobile while allowing your diabetic foot ulcer to heal. It is the gold standard of treatment for a wound on the bottom of your foot. You will be amazed at how quickly you heal in a TCC.
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