Wound/Hyperbaric
Medicine Expert Dr. Matthew D. Antalek joins panel of Physician Specialists with
ECMC Wound Center
BUFFALO, NEW YORK;
March 28, 2012–At just beyond the one year mark of the anniversary of the Wound
Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center at ECMC, the service is now identified as a
Center of Excellence with the well known/respected infectious disease specialist
Matthew David Antalek, D.O., becoming a leading
member of the clinical team.
Dr.
Antalek previously served as Assistant Professor and Director of graduate
studies in the Physician Assistant Department at D’Youville College and
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine within the Division of Infectious
Diseases in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for the University
at Buffalo.
Dr.
Antalek was formerly the Chief Medical Officer and Director of Medicine at
Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital and previously served as Medical Director of
Evergreen Health Services and Site Director of Infectious Diseases at Millard
Fillmore Suburban. He is currently
an Infectious Diseases Consultant in private practice.
Dr.
Antalek earned a Doctorate of Osteopathy from the New York College of
Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, New York. He performed his: Fellowship in Infectious Diseases through
the State University of New York at Buffalo; Internship at the Community
Hospital of Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Residency in Internal Medicine
for the Millard Fillmore Hospitals, Buffalo, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in
General Biology from the State University of New York at Albany. Specializing in epidemiology, internal
medicine and infectious diseases, Dr. Antalek is the recipient of numerous
commendations and awards for teaching excellence in medical subjects.
“With
Dr. Antalek’s arrival, we are now able to provide a patient with every aspect
of wound care. ECMC’s wound care
team includes the best specialists in vascular, surgical, podiatric medicine,
and now infectious disease,” explained Elizabeth Engler, Program Director,
Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center at ECMC. “As a comprehensive Center of Excellence, ECMC’s wound care
service model is truly patient-centered with convenient patient accessibility
and excellent care management enabling the best outcomes possible. We anticipate that this service
structure will result in increased, responsive patient referrals so wounds can
be healed before more serious complications arise.”
Dedicated in February of 2011, ECMC formally
opened the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center to speed healing for
trauma, surgical, diabetes and other patients with slow-healing wounds in a
unique facility for Western New York.
The ECMC Wound Center, built in response to closure and consolidation
of facilities at Millard Fillmore Gates Circle and ECMC, is a new,
state-of-the-art center, currently with two hyperbaric chambers, expandable to
house additional chambers as patient volume increases. The Center helps wound patients before
ulcers and injuries lead to amputations.
The hyperbaric chambers each hold a reclined patient who communicates by
phone with a technician. Patients
can watch television and DVDs through an acrylic dome or listen to piped-in
music. A surgeon specially trained
in hyperbaric healing is available for the start and end of each treatment, as
well as to treat the wounds themselves.
Hyperbaric
oxygen therapy involves putting a patient in a pressurized chamber daily with
100 percent oxygen for a length of time over weeks, depending on the wound. The effect of the pressure two levels
below sea level is to open blood vessels, improve circulation and deliver
enriched oxygenated blood to wound sites, enhancing and speeding healing. The feeling is like an airplane
descending to land. If diabetics
and trauma patients with wounds can heal faster and more effectively, short-
and long-term treatment costs are less, further complications are limited or
avoided, and patients can live healthier lives.
Nearly
24 million people, 8 percent of the American population, have diabetes and 15
percent of those with the disease will develop chronic wounds.
More
information about the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center at ECMC is
available at 716-898-4800 and www.ecmc.edu/medicalservices/wound
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