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Services Provided

There are many components to healing a wound. The Inova Dorothea R. Fisher Wound Healing Center at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital includes hyperbaric medicine for certain types of non-healing wounds. Our team with your help, will begin an individualized patient care plan for the treatment of your wound. Due to factors that may be preventing the healing of your wound, the wound care treatment program may include many different components including:

• Nutrition assessment and counseling
• Digital photographic measurement of wounds to assess the progress in healing
• Noninvasive vascular diagnostics
• Debridement - removal of bad tissue
• Education/prevention
• Special needs including beds, mattresses, seat cushions or footwear
• Antibiotic management program
• Compression therapy - elastic stockings, bandages and other forms of compression therapy that fit the patient needs
• State-of-the-art biotechnology treatments (growth factor therapy, bioengineered tissue)
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy