About Wound Care INSTITUTE OF TEXAS
Wound Care Institute of Texas offers a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to wound management for patients with chronic wounds. These wounds can cause severe health risks and may result in life-threatening infections, possible amputation, and other serious health problems. Our advanced wound care offers our patients a greater chance of healing and improving their quality of life. Our treatments are timely, evidence-based, cost-effective, safe, and pain free.
“Our clinic offers the people of Hidalgo County and surrounding areas with timely and appropriate wound care services. We offer wound care that is evidence-based, cost-effective, safe, and painless.”
Where We Provide Our Services
What is Advanced Wound Care?
Advanced wound care (AWC) treatments and products are designed to treat acute & chronic wounds. These hard-to-heal wounds take longer time to heal and need special treatments. Traditional wound care products are being increasingly replaced with these advanced wound care products and treatments due to their efficiency & effectiveness by enabling faster healing.
benefits of Advanced Wound Care Treatments
- Maintaining a hydrated environment
- Keeping temperature consistent
- Allowing flow of oxygen
- Protecting the site from exogenous infection
- Reducing pain
Types of Hard-to-Heal Wounds We Treat
- Neuropathic ulcers in diabetic patients
- Ulcers on ischemic limbs
- Pressure ulcers
- Venous stasis ulcers
- Non-healing surgical wounds
- Peristomal skin irritations
- Radiation wounds
- Burns
- Fistulas
- Any wounds that resist healing
Complex wounds such as vascular ulcers, diabetic ulcers, radiation wounds, various types of traumatic injury, and some post-operative wounds benefit from treatment in our wound care center.
- If a wound has not started to heal within two weeks or has not totally healed in six weeks
- Chronic wounds that have not significantly healed with conventional treatment.
- You have underlying factors such as diabetes, arthritis, vascular disease, trauma, infection, congestive heart failure, incontinence, severe obesity, renal failure, or nerve damage.
“Our mission is to enhance the lives and health of our patients through improved access to quality, affordable, and innovative wound care services”.