HBOT

Management of Large Postfasciotomy Wound Following Complex Vascular Surgery

Introduction: Management of large post-fasciotomy wounds after major vascular surgery to the extremities can be challenging. Primary closure is often difficult due to excessive and persis...

11/25/2019

Against Most Odds: A Case Report, Limb Salvage

Introduction: In the U.S., 24.4 million people are diabetic. Thirty-three percent of the cost of treating diabetes is linked to the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. Despite treatment, 3...

11/06/2019

A Retrospective Analysis of Treatment of Wounds Caused by Calciphylaxis: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy with and Without Sodium Thiosulfate

Background: Calciphylaxis, or calcific uremic arteriolopathy, is a rare, devastating condition with a mortality approaching 80%, most often seen in patients with chronic kidney disea...

08/19/2019

Reader Reports

What a Reader Survey on HBOT Reveals

08/02/2019

Editor’s Note: To better understand our audience, Today’s Wound Clinic surveyed readers about the services they provide in their facilities. What follows is part of the results of a reader survey regarding hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT),...

Editor’s Note: To better...

08/02/2019

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ICD-10-CM

ICD-10 Coding for Soft Tissue Radiation Necrosis Treated with HBOT

03/11/2019

Valerie J. Short, RN, ACHRN, CWCN, CWS, CMBS, FACCWS

There have been many challenges for everyone in the health care profession related to the implementation of ICD-10, which took effect on October 1, 2015. Fortunately, the field of hyperbaric medicine had a very short list of covered...

There have been many challenges...

03/11/2019

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From the Editor

Hyperbaric Medicine’s New Specialty Coding

01/09/2019

Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM

You may have heard a few firecrackers on New Year’s Eve, but the biggest fireworks in our industry went off Jan. 7. That’s because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a new physician specialty code for Undersea...

You may have heard a few...

01/09/2019

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