Hyperbaric oxygen therapy(HBOT) is a treatment where patient breathes pure oxygen while enclosed in a
hyperbaric
oxygen chamber at a pressure greater than one atmosphere,relying on oxygen's physical,chemical, and
physiological effects to achieve the goal of treating diseases.
Under normal circumstances , oxygen is transported throughout the body only by red blood cells. With
HBOT,oxygen is dissolved into all of the body's fluids,plasma,central nervous system,bones and the lymph,and
can be carried to areas where circulation is diminished or blocked.In this way,extra oxygen can reach all
damaged tissue and the body can support its own healing process.The increased oxygen greatly enhances the
ability of white blood cells to kill bacteria,reduces swelling and allows new blood vessels to grow more
rapidly into the affected areas.
Disease caused by bubbles
● Decompression sickness
● Boiling blood (diving, iatrogenic, accidental)
Poisoning
● Acute carbon monoxide poisoning
● Cyanide poisoning
Acute ischemic state
● Dangerous skin flap
● Osteofascial compartment syndrome
● Crush injury
● Blood circulation disorder after amputation (finger, toe)surgery
● Hemorrhagic shock that cannot be solved with blood transfusion
Infectious disease
● Necrotizing soft tissue infection (necrotic cellulitis, necrotizing fasciitis, necrotizing myositis,
etc.)
● Emphysematous gangrene
● Refractory osteomyelitis
● Intracranial abscess
● Refractory fungal infection
● Pneumatosis intestinalis
● Necrotizing external otitis
Radioactive tissue damage
● Radioactive osteonecrosis (diagnosed, preventive)
● Soft tissue radionecrosis (diagnosed, prophylactic)
● Radioactive hemorrhagic cystitis
● Radioactive proctitis
● Radioactive lower jaw injury before oral surgery
● Postoperative preventive treatment
Wound surface
● Diabetic infectious ulcer
● Gangrenous pyoderma
● Pressure sores
● Burn
● Chronic venous ulcer
Others
● Sudden deafness
● obstruction of central rentinal artery
● Brain trauma
● Sound damage
● Noise deafness
● Acute central retinal choroiditis
● Acute eye ground blood disorder
