DEAR DR. GOTT: Some time ago a reader wrote in regarding the failure of a wound to heal.

My hospital, the Sierra Nevada Hospital in Grass Valley, has opened one of several state-of-the-art wound centers in the state of California. Treatment is provided by specially trained physicians or by the center’s nurse practitioner. They use computerized medical records, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and biologic skin substitutes. It offers monoplace oxygen chambers that perform full-body therapy that allows pressurized oxygen to be absorbed into the body to enhance the perfusion of oxygen to the tissues.

Treatments are 90 minutes long and are given five days a week. You reader should check this out, and if he or she isn’t near this part of California, I’m certain there are other such centers throughout the country.
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