Avera wound care services in Yankton, SD, offer personalized services when you have a complex wound from a condition or surgery that won't adequately heal with routine, moderate care. Our team of providers are specifically certified in wound and ostomy. They care for you and your loved ones with compassion and dignity for concerns such as ulcers, burns, surgical incisions, trauma, fistulas and more.
Wound Care Treatments
You have access to the latest technology and treatment measures including:
- Compression wrapping
- Debridement
- Gradient compression garments
- Manual lymphatic drainage
- Orthotics
- Pain management
- Pressure relief appliances such as mattresses, cushions, etc.
- Specialized dressings
- Therapeutic exercise
- Topical medications
- Advanced wound care options such as:
- Cellular tissue products
- Electrical stimulation
- Infrared
- Negative pressure vacuum-assisted closure
- Surgical wound closure
- Ultrasound
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
To help address non-healing diabetic skin conditions or sores, you may receive a prescription for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). The wound care clinic on our hospital campus offers a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
During this process, you’ll be pressurized with oxygen inside a comfortable and spacious hyperbaric oxygen chamber. While in the chamber, you breathe 100% oxygen at pressures two to three times atmospheric pressure, which stimulates the body's natural healing response.
Burn Services
Including our wound care services, you may receive burn care from experts in emergency surgery, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, skin care and reconstructive procedures. We treat burns from a variety of sources including:
- Steam, hot-liquid scalding, and flammable liquids and gases
- Fires and inhalation injury from breathing smoke
- Frostbite and hypothermia
- Chemicals
- Electricity
- Sunlight
Our holiday hours may vary for major holidays, including New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
