The Surgical Wound Care Team sees and treats many types of chronic wounds, including pressure sores, cancer wounds, traumatic injuries, chronic burn scars, venous stasis ulcers, brown recluse spider bites, and post-operative wounds.
The UAMS HEALTH Plastic Surgery Wound Clinic provides comprehensive and personalized treatment for complex and non-healing wounds. The department provides surgical consultations with advance surgical and reconstructive options.
Services Also Include:
- Application of Bio-engineered Skin Grafts/Substitutes
- Autologous Skin Grafts
- Debridement’s
- Incision and drainage
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
- Removal of Benign Skin Lesions
- Specialized Wound Dressings
- Wound Cultures and Biopsies
- Wound Closure with Flaps/Grafts
- Patient and Family Education
Our Services Exclude: Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment, Acute wound infections requiring urgent intervention, Cellulitis or edema without a surgically correctable wound, Chronic venous ulcers not requiring reconstruction, Ischemic wounds requiring vascular evaluation or revascularization, Lymphedema or lipedema, Ostomy or stoma care, Palliative wound care or unresectable malignant wounds, Routine postoperative wound care (e.g., dressing changes, staple or suture removal) and other conditions not surgically correctable.
