Hennepin Healthcare’s Center for Hyperbaric Medicine Announces Soothe Your Soles Event, Sept 25
Monday, September 16, 2019 at 1:07PMVia a September 16 announcement from Hennepin Healthcare:
Soothe Your Soles: Treating Wounds with Hyperbaric Medicine
Ever wondered what the hyperbaric chamber looks like at Hennepin Healthcare? We hear about patients being brought there for carbon monoxide poisoning, but did you know they also treat wounds related to diabetes, frostbite and tissue damage related to radiation injury?
Learn more about hyperbaric medicine at Soothe Your Soles: Treating Wounds with Hyperbaric Medicine on Wednesday, September 25 from 6-8pm. The event is free and you’ll have the opportunity to tour the hyperbaric chamber and ask questions about this life-saving technology. The entire team looks forward to meeting you! Register for Soothe Your Soles.
Hennepin Healthcare’s Center for Hyperbaric Medicine has the state’s only 24/7 state-of-the-art hyperbaric oxygen chamber available to care for emergent conditions such as carbon monoxide poisoning and decompression sickness. But hyperbaric medicine therapy is also important in the treatment of chronic medical conditions like refractory osteomyelitis, tissue damage from radiation injury, and foot ulcers in diabetic patients. In this Here 4 Health session emergency physician Tom Masters, MD will provide a tour of our hyperbaric chamber, show you how it works and share information about our innovative coordinated approach to treating diabetic wounds. He will be joined by podiatric surgeon Nicole Bauerly, DPM for an interactive discussion about the unique needs of the feet.
Complimentary parking is available in our HCMC Parking Ramp located at 615 South 6th Street. Take the parking ramp elevator to the second floor and follow the skyway to our Purple Building. Event will be held at the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine on the first floor of the Purple Building.
