Conditions Benefited
- Non-healing wounds
- Necrotizing infections
- Acute traumatic ischemia
- Compromised skin flaps/grafts
- Post surgical soft tissue infections
- Non-healing post surgery, reconstruction and cosmetic surgery
- Pre and post surgery healing, reconstruction and cosmetic surgery
How will YOUR patient benefit?
HBOT effects wound healing in the following ways:
- HBO2 promotes growth of new blood vessels (neovascularization)
- New vasculature for healing needs a supporting structure of collagen. The collagen production and incorporation process needs oxygen
- Increased oxygen tension in tissue increases oxygen-dependent killing of anaerobes by leukocytes, and also has direct toxic effects
- Increased oxygen tension allows greater capillary oxygen diffusion distances
Many patients, when following closely the prescribed protocol for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy notice the following cumulative benefits from the oxygen:
from HBO textbook, page 159
HBOT and Graft/Flap survival
- Oxygen availability is critical to skin grafting success. HBO2 increases tissue oxygen levels in hypoxic and ischemic wounds.
- HBO2 stimulates formation of blood vessels and granulation tissue, and prepares the recipient bed for grafts or flaps
- In some cases, HBO2 will be enough to make skin grafting unnecessary, or reduce regrafting and repeat graft procedures
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