Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments Reviews

Some, but not very many, hospitals have a hyperbaric chamber. Smaller units may be available in outpatient center.

The air pressure inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber is about two and a half times greater than the normal pressure in the atmosphere. This helps your blood carry more oxygen to organs and tissues in your body.

Hyperbaric therapy can help wounds, especially infected wounds, heal more quickly. The therapy may be used to treat:

* Air or gas embolism
* Bone infections (osteomyelitis) that have not improved with other treatments
* Burns
* Carbon monoxide poisoning
* Certain types of brain or sinus infections
* Decompression sickness (for example, a diving injury)
* Gas gangrene
* Necrotizing soft tissue infections
* Radiation injury (for example, damage from radiation therapy for cancer)
* Skin grafts
* Wounds that have not healed with other treatments (for example, it may be used to treat a foot ulcer in someone with diabetes or very bad circulation)

Treatments for chronic conditions may be repeated over days or weeks. A treatment session for more acute conditions such as decompression sickness may be longer but not necessarily repeated.

Equine athletes treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy are better able to consistently compete at their full potential. Our chambers have successfully treated over two hundred horses with varying debilitating injuries. Like any medical procedure results vary, however the majority of horses showed vast improvements and accelerated healing over conventional treatment alone.

HBOT has made possible the complete rehabilitation of horses with injuries deemed to be career ending.

HBOT’s proven ability to accelerate healing of minor wounds has consistently returned horses back to the track, saving an otherwise failed season. Reinjury rates are consistently lower than without treatment.

HBOT sessions used for general preventative athletic therapy and to treat minor chronic disease and infection allow some competition horses to race with greater frequency. Horses who could previously compete only every 2-4 weeks have been able to step to the gate weekly and compete at their full potential.

The stable with access to a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber has an indispensable tool to sharpen their winning edge.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a clinical treatment where the patient breathes 100% oxygen intermittently while enclosed in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at a pressure greater than one atmosphere. HBOT has been proven effective for many medical conditions, and as a result the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, one of the premier research institutes, has approved it to treat the following indications:

1. Air or Gas Embolism
2. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complicated by Cyanide Poisoning
3. Clostridal Myositis and Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)
4. Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome, and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
5. Decompression Sickness
6. Enhancement of Healing in Selected Problem Wounds
7. Exceptional Blood Loss (Anemia)
8. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
9. Refractory Osteomyelitis
10. Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)
11. Compromised Skin Grafts & Flaps
12. Thermal Burns
13. Intracranial Abscess

In addition, Medicare coverage determinations will reimburse in the U.S. for the following conditions:

* Patient has type I or type II diabetes and has a lower extremity wound that is due to diabetes;
* Patient has a wound classified as Wagner grade III or higher; and
* Patient has failed an adequate course of standard wound therapy.

How HBO Works:

Hyperbaric medicine is effective for the above indications and many more because it enables five basic actions: hyper oxygenation of the body, the mechanical effects of increased pressure, the mass action of gasses, and vasoconstriction and bacteriostasis.

Monoplace chambers are National Fire Protection Association (N.F.P.A) Class B devices that can be pressurized up to 3 ATA with 100% oxygen.  Monoplace, or single person, chambers are the most widely used for HBOT.