07/11/2023
Just a reminder! To meet the needs of our community we have started providing wound care services in our office.
When a wound does not heal after 30 days, it is considered a chronic wound. Chronic wounds often require treatment with a wound care expert, and may require debridement for specialized dressings. More importantly, establishing the reason why the wound is not healing is the key to successful treatment.
The most common types of chronic wounds include diabetic foot ulcers , vascular ulcers, venous ulcers, and pressure ulcers. The list includes but is not limited to:
• Non-healing surgical wounds
• Venous leg ulcers
• Arterial ulcers
• Surgical/Trauma wounds
• Chronic leg ulcers
• Diabetic foot ulcers
• Pressure ulcers (decubitus, bed sores)
• Chronic osteomyelitis (bone infection)
• Radiation-related tissue damage
It is recommended that you seek treatment with a wound specialist if you experience the following:
• A wound that hasn’t healed in 30 days
• Swelling or recurrent blisters of the lower legs
• A sore that has foul odor, has changed in color, increasing pain, redness and swelling
• A wound that gets bigger, has blisters or has black/brown dead tissue, and drains fluids
Our Team:
Dr. Halaby has been practicing vascular surgery and wound care since 2005 in this community and has been the medical director of the local wound care Center since then. He has extensive experience in the treatment and diagnosis of complex wounds, and is able to provide the full range of conservative and invasive treatment modalities, including treating arteries and veins, performing skin grafts, and surgical debridements.
Jennifer Bigelow APRN, has extensive wound care experience, that started
when she was an emergency room nurse practitioner , and has evolved in the past few years as she has been focused on running the wound care clinic in Venice on a weekly basis.
Our Services
• Dressing changes
• Compression bandages
• Wound care and disease management education
• Application of cellular and tissue-based products
• Debridement (removal of dead, damaged or infected tissue)
• Negative pressure wound therapy
• Noninvasive vascular studies, Accredited Vascular ultrasound facility
• Specialty wound dressings
• Arterial procedures
• Vein procedures
• Skin grafts reminder!
