Hyperbaric chambers give doctor a leg up on healing wounds

Dr. Regina Phillips and program director Karen Treadwell demonstrate how patients enter a hyperbaric chamber at Russell Medical’s Wound Care Center.

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 Kenneth S. Boone

For diabetics and others with slow-to-heal wounds, Russell Medical’s Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Department has proven to be a nearly foolproof solution.

“We’ve saved a lot of legs and a lot of toes,” said Dr. Regina Phillips, the physician in charge of the department. “Our success rate is in the mid to high 90s. We joke that we’re not only saving a limb but lives because through our process we’ve found people with cancer and blocked arteries.”