Wound management in Carindale, with a healing plan.

A healing plan is only useful if you can see whether it’s working. At Carindale Doctors, our nurses measure your wound’s length, width and depth at regular intervals, note the type of tissue in the wound bed and the amount of fluid, and may take photos with your consent. Comparing these over time shows clearly whether the wound is getting smaller.

As a rule of thumb, a chronic wound that hasn’t reduced in size by around a third to a half within four weeks of good care needs its plan reviewed. When that happens, your GP looks again at the underlying cause, considers further tests or specialist input, and adjusts the treatment.

In short: Carindale Doctors provides wound management inside Westfield Carindale with a healing plan that measures and records your wound at regular intervals. If healing stalls, your GP reviews the cause and adjusts treatment. Medicare rebates apply where eligible.

• Wound measurements at regular intervals
• Tissue type and fluid recorded
• Photos with your consent
• Progress compared over time
• Plan reviewed if healing stalls
• GP and nurse working together

These factors can make a big difference to healing:

• Blood sugar control in diabetes.
• Stopping smoking.
• Eating enough protein, vitamins and minerals.
• Reducing pressure and swelling on the wound.

Your GP and nurse will help you address the ones that apply to you.

Our approach:

• Step 1, baseline: measure and record the wound.
• Step 2, treat: dressings and underlying cause.
• Step 3, track: measure at regular visits.
• Step 4, adjust: change the plan if healing stalls.

Our clinic is on Level 1 of Westfield Carindale, next to Priceline and Centre Management, in postcode 4152, about 11 kilometres from the Brisbane CBD.

We manage wounds for patients from Carina, Belmont, Mansfield, Tingalpa and Holland Park.

• About 11 kilometres from the CBD
• Lifts and step-free access
• Centre parking
• Patients from Tingalpa and Holland Park welcome