What can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) do?
HBOT is an indicated therapy in a large and increasing number of recognized conditions. A list of currently accepted acute and adjunctive indications is indicated below. It is however important to differentiate between HBOT as a primary and adjunctive therapy. In modern medicine, HBOT is accepted as the primary therapy in these conditions only: Decompression Illness, Gas Embolism, and Acute Anoxia, as for example in Carbon Monoxide poisoning. In other conditions, it does not replace existing forms of treatment but is an adjunctive therapy. One of the more widespread clinical applications for HBO is that of wound healing. Current practice reserves HBO Therapy for conditions which have failed to respond to normal management techniques and it is considered unnecessary in simple well perfused wounds. Hypoxic and or ischemic wounds such as diabetic wounds, failing grafts and flaps, radiation necrosis, necrotizing soft tissue infections and refractory osteo-myelitis have all been shown to re
