Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a well-established medical treatment that promotes healing by delivering a high concentration of oxygen quickly and deeply into the affected areas of the body. During treatment, a patient goes into a closed chamber. The atmospheric pressure inside the chamber is increased. When the pressure reaches the level prescribed for the treatment, the patient is given 100 percent oxygen to breathe for a set amount of time. A summary of the International Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy from Oxygen in Physiology and Medicine list the following: 1. Decompression Sickness 2. Air embolism 3. Poisoning: carbon monoxide, cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, carbon tetrachloride. 4. Treatment of certain infections: gas gangrene, acute necrotizing fascitis, refractory mycoses, leprosy, osteomyelitis. 5. Plastic and reconstructive surgery: * for nonhealing wounds * as an aid to the survival of skin flaps with marginal circulation * as an aid to reimplantation surgery * as an adjunct to the treatment of burns 6. Traumatology: crush injuries, compartment syndrome, soft tissue sports injuries 7. Orthopedics: nonunion of fractures, bone grafts, osteoradionecrosis 8. Peripheral vascular disease: shock, myocardial ischemia, aid to cardiac surgery, ischemic gangrene, ischemic leg pain 9. Neurological: stroke, multiple sclerosis, migraine, cerebral edema, multi-infarct dementia, spinal cord injury and vascular diseases of the spinal cord, brain abscess, peripheral neuropathy, radiation myelitis, vegetative coma 10. Hematology: sickle cell crises, severe blood loss anemia 11. Ophthalmology: occlusion of central artery of retina 12. Gastro-intestinal: gastric ulcer, necrotizing enteroscolitis, paralytic ileus, pneumotoides cystoides intestinalis, hepatitis 13. For enhancement of radiosensitivity of malignant tumors 14. Otorhinolaryngology: sudden deafness, acute acoustic trauma, labyrinthitis, Meniere's disease, ear infection 15. Lung diseases: lung abscess, pulmonary embolism (adjunct to surgery) 16. Endocrine: diabetes 17. Obstetrics: complicated pregnancy--diabetes, eclampsia, heart disease, placental hypoxia, fetal hypoxia, congenital heart disease of the neonate 18. Asphyxiation: drowning, smoke inhalation 19. Aid to rehabilitation: spastic hemiplegia of stroke, paraplegia, chronic myocardial insufficiency, peripheral vascular disease |
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