Success Stories
Linda
Successful Hyperbaric Therapy aids in Saving her Foot
One evening last summer, while attempting to remove a sign that was blocking her rear window, Linda C slipped and ended up with her left foot pinned under her truck tires. Once she was freed and rushed to the nearby hospital ER, the trauma surgeon discovered that most of the skin had been removed from her foot and that she had suffered considerable nerve damage. There was even the possibility that the foot would need to be amputated.
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Linda, was moved to a second hospital where a plastic surgeon performed reconstructive surgery to try and save her foot. She spent four days in recovery, and the resulting pain was excruciating.
A month later, after Linda’s husband heard about the benefits of hyperbaric therapy, Linda was admitted to Kindred Hospital – Sahara (NV) for a 20-day course. She showed remarkable improvement after only four sessions of hyperbaric therapy, and her surgery to implant artificial skin grafts was scheduled sooner than expected. A third surgery for an epidermal skin graft was completed shortly thereafter.
Linda continues to visit the Wound Care Outpatient Clinic and her foot looks almost normal again. She is now able to walk with crutches for extended distances, and the number of dressing changes and her pain level has decreased.
Linda praises the Hyperbaric Therapy and Wound Care Clinic staff at Kindred Hospital – Sahara and, of course, her doctor for making it possible for she and her husband to return to a normal life after this horrific accident.
“From the bottom of our hearts, we can never thank all of you enough,” - Linda.
John
Everyone Worked Together
John was working on his farm. He hopped off his tractor to shut a gate and his tractor kept moving.
“I tried to jump on it, like a dummy, and fell,” John said. “The tractor ran over me.”
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He was immobilized with broken bones, fractured ribs and a punctured lung.
“Somehow I was able to wiggle around and get the cell phone out of my pocket,” he said. He called his wife, and within an hour a medical helicopter was taking him to a short-term acute care hospital.
He stayed there in the Intensive Care Unit for seven weeks and was then admitted to Kindred Hospital.
“Really, by that point he was still in critical condition,” his wife said. “He was totally dependent on a ventilator to breathe. The people at the hospital had done everything they could – we just needed to go somewhere where they had expertise in caring for vent patients.”
Almost immediately, the caregivers at Kindred Hospital began rehabilitation therapy and the process of weaning John from the ventilator.
“He had been on his back for seven weeks, and gradually they kept having him do a little more at a time,” his wife said. “The walking helped him strengthen his lungs.”
“I felt like I was making progress, absolutely,” John said. “I’d heard of Kindred before, but I didn’t really know what they did.”
Six weeks later, John was released to home care to fully recover.
“By the time we left, he was walking, breathing, swallowing and eating,” his wife said. “And it was the teamwork that was great.”
“The care was excellent,” John said. “Everybody knew what they were doing and everybody worked together.”
“Just excellent.”