What is a Non Healing Wound? - Ask Saint Peter's

Charles Franco, MD General Vascular Surgeon with Saint Peter's Wound Care Center® and Hyperbaric Services in Monroe, NJ explains treatment of nonhealing wounds.

Saint Peter's University Hospital was the first hospital in the area to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) services. This cutting-edge technology is used to treat chronic nonhealing wounds.

Saint Peter's Wound Care Center® and Hyperbaric Services
Clearbrook Commons Medical and Professional Office Park
294 Applegarth Road
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A chronic wound and is a wound that hasn't healed within the expected period of time. Most wounds heal very easily. There are a number of factors that can cause a wound to become chronic. We define a chronic wound as a wound that hasn't healed within 30 days. The cause of a nonhealing wound could be one of many different things. It can be something that's systemic, meaning affecting your body, as a whole, or it can be something that is local or regional to the wound itself.

Things that are systemic or affecting our body altogether could be things like diabetes, poor heart function, poor kidney function, poor nutrition, all of these things, systemically can affect the wound healing. Also, local factors such as infection, whether it's even clinically apparent. There may be a subclinical infection within the wound that just causes it to be prolonged and not go on to healing as we expect it to be.

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