Curious about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy? The following article, published in the Las Vegas Sun, shows some photo examples of what a hyperbaric oxygen treatment can look like at MountainView Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center. Swipe through the photos to get a look at the oxygen chamber, and you may even...
Wound Care Experts founder and physician, Dr. Naz Wahab, will be speaking at Summer Wound Con on July 16, 2021. Come and see her lecture, titled “Newer Techniques for Noninvasive Vascular Assessments that You can Do in the Clinic.” Wound Con is the largest global virtual wound care conference and...
In a recent publication, “Clinical Applications of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Modern Wound Care Clinic,” Dr. Naz Wahab gives a brief history of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and presents two case studies to explore how the technology is used in wound care today. This treatment option is increasingly displaying potential for wound...
Wound Care Experts is so excited to announce that our own Dr. Naz Wahab was named in the Top 100 Docs in Las Vegas for 2021. The poll surveyed over 200,000 local Las Vegas readers to find the most highly recommended doctors and dentists in Las Vegas. Congratulations Dr. Wahab!...
Come listen to Dr. Wahab at the AAWC Leg Ulcer and Compression Day Virtual Conference. The event takes place April 10th-11th and offers virtual sessions from experts in the wound care field. The event will be an innovative and interactive virtual journey to navigate venous disease and venous leg ulceration...
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered dramatic changes throughout everyday life — and in the medical community as well. Not only are providers across the country postponing elective procedures, but many are also encouraging people to avoid in-office appointments to reduce their risk of exposure to this highly contagious coronavirus. WHat...
Nutrition is supremely important for proper wound healing. As I often tell my patients, wound healing is similar to construction. To build your structure, you need your 2x4s and steel beams. Protein is the biological equivalent. Protein itself is made of molecules known as amino acids. There are 20 human amino acids, and they...
"An infected wound is due to bacteria in the wound." Simple enough statement, right? Most of us, even those that are not medical professionals, understand this point. The truth underpinning this statement, however, is so much more complex. First, let us understand just the diversity of the "microbiome," or the...
Wound Care as a specialty of surgery continues to be a "young" field. As such, the field continues to experience much exciting growth and flux. We as a specialty still are answering for ourselves such existential questions as "what are the boundaries of our speciality," "who should be allowed to...
One of the most common complications that we see in the wound care and tissue regeneration world is infection. Unlike other pathology, diagnosing a wound infection is not as simple as ordering one lab or performing one test. For example, when a cardiologist uses angiography to take pictures of your...
A wound might develop for many reasons. This can range from the quite mundane, like a cut on the foot or a scrape on the shin, to the very serious. If we think about our everyday life, most wound heal pretty quickly; we put some antibiotic ointment on it, take...