The Center for Advanced Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine
Care based on special protocol database
Although many physicians treat chronic wounds in their day-to-day practice, these wounds present a particular challenge because of their variety and complexity. The team at Lourdes' wound center at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden helps to advance the clinical practice of wound care by using a proprietary database that summarizes best practices based on more than two-million wound-care cases.
This knowledge set includes information on diagnosis, treatment and outcome for each of these cases. This powerful healthcare informatics tool helps the wound-care specialists at Lourdes' Camden center approach each patient's treatment plan with a wealth of data about what works best-and thus permits them to use an evidence-based approach to treating chronic wounds. This outcome data has been used to benchmark performance against 300 world-class, wound-care-center programs.
The recorded experience in the database has been translated into a comprehensive and proprietary set of clinical practice guidelines. These protocols show what treatments have been most successful and can bring the most healing and best outcomes for its patients. The Lourdes team has trained using these guidelines and applies them in daily practice.
