Wound Care in Arizona

If you’re dealing with non-healing wounds in Phoenix, Mesa or Payson, our Arizona wound center can provide you with wound care services. Our team of board-certified vascular surgeons has extensive experience in treating a variety of wounds, including diabetic wounds, venous stasis ulcers, arterial ulcers, and pressure ulcers. We’ll work closely with you to create a personalized treatment plan that suits your unique needs and promotes optimal healing.

Our wound care clinic in Arizona offers a range of effective wound care treatments, including advanced wound dressings, debridement, compression therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and surgery. Our goal is to help you heal faster and more effectively while minimizing the risk of complications. If you need help with non-healing wounds, don’t hesitate to contact us to schedule an appointment with one of our wound care clinics in Arizona. At Western Vascular Institute, we’re dedicated to providing compassionate, comprehensive care to help you get back to your life as quickly and comfortably as possible.

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Wound Types

What Are the Symptoms of a Wound?

Conditions such as arterial disease, venous insufficiency, deep venous disease, and critical limb ischemia due to the reduced blood flow to the extremities can cause wounds to heal slowly.

• Thick and hard skin
• Change in color of skin
• Swelling and redness

What Are the Causes of Wounds?

Most leg ulcers and peripheral wounds are due to a lack of blood supply to the affected area as a result of venous or arterial disease. The backup of blood and fluid, due to the inefficient ability of the venous system to carry the blood supply and fluids back up to the heart for redistribution, creates increased pressure on the vein walls and can lead to non-healing wounds.

What Affects Wound Healing?

Here are some factors that affect wound healing:

• Obesity or being overweight
• Diabetes
• High Cholesterol
• High Blood pressure
• Smoking
• History of venous or arterial disease
• Age older than 60

How Do You Treat Wounds?

Vascular Surgeons will generally take the most conservative treatment option available to treat their patients to see if they can achieve wound healing at the least discomfort to the patient. When conservative treatments such as medication (antibiotics) and other methods are non-successful the doctors will move to more aggressive management.

• Venous: Generally venous wounds/ulcers take a long time to heal. In the case that they do not heal the treatment will be focused on improving the blood flow to the affected area. Your doctor may first recommend antibiotics to prevent further infection. Other treatments your surgeon may recommend are:
  • Properly cleaning and bandaging the wound
  • Compression therapy – stocking or bandage
  • Leg elevation
  • Radio Frequency Ablation- Your doctor may perform this procedure to reduce the build-up of blood in certain areas allowing your body to make alternative healthier pathways to route the blood to the affected areas.
• Arterial: Your treatment for arterial wounds after conservative management has failed may include:
• Angioplasty: to balloon and possibly stent the blocked artery to improve the flow of blood to the area with the hope that this will improve symptoms.
• Amputation: If blood flow cannot be restored or if the wound is heavily infected your doctor may recommend that the affected limb be amputated to save the rest of your body from infection.