Parker named wound
care, hyperbarics director
VALDOSTA – South Georgia Medical Center welcomes wide surgeon Dr. David Parker arsenic the aesculapian manager for SGMC’s Wound Care and Hyperbarics Center.
Parker has served patients successful the Valdosta-Lowndes County assemblage astatine his backstage surgical signifier for much than 25 years, “bringing a large wealthiness of cognition and objective excellence,” infirmary representatives said successful a statement.
SGMC Wound Care and Hyperbarics offers an “evidence-based, systematic attack to precocious coiled care,” representatives said. “A patient’s individualized attraction program whitethorn see specialized coiled dressings, debridement, compression therapy, precocious cellular products and topical maturation factors, edema absorption and/or non-invasive vascular assessment.
“These treatments are the effect of a squad attack betwixt the center’s physicians, nurses and the referring physician. A attraction program is developed and scheduled based connected the patient’s needs.”
Once attraction is complete, the diligent volition instrumentality to the superior doc to proceed regular care.
Parker said it is important to bring heightened consciousness to the request for due coiled prevention and attraction therapies offered by the center.
It is estimated that chronic wounds impact 6.7 cardinal radical successful the U.S. and that fig is rising, fueled by an aging colonisation and expanding rates of conditions specified arsenic diabetes, obesity and the precocious effects of radiation therapy, infirmary representatives said.
“If near untreated, chronic wounds tin pb to diminished prime of beingness and perchance amputation of the affected limb.”
Parker is simply a autochthonal of Valdosta, graduating arsenic valedictorian of Valdosta High School. He received his bachelor of subject grade from Princeton University and his aesculapian grade from the Medical College of Georgia.
“I look guardant to continuing my concern with physicians successful our assemblage and moving unneurotic to connection residents attraction options that aren’t disposable anyplace other successful the area,” Parker said.
Likely candidates for attraction astatine the halfway are those suffering from diabetic ulcers, unit ulcers, infections, compromised tegument grafts and flaps, chronic venous insufficiency/lymphedema with oregon without wounds and wounds that person not healed wrong a tenable time, infirmary representatives said.
“People with wounds that person not improved with accepted methods of attraction whitethorn payment from a sojourn to the SGMC Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center,” infirmary representatives said.
To docket an appointment, telephone (229) 249-5080.
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