| Description (Service) |
Provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to promote healing in 14 conditions by delivering a high concentration of oxygen into the affected areas of the body * treatment takes place inside a closed hyperbaric chamber
Treat the following conditions:
- embolisms
(air or gas bubbles in the bloodstream, which may travel to the brain or
lungs)
- carbon
monoxide poisoning (from inhaling smoke or car exhaust)
- gas
gangrene
- crush
injury, Compartment Syndrome and other acute traumatic problems where
blood flow is reduced or cut off (e.g. frostbite)
- decompression
sickness (the bends)
- enhancement
of healing for wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers
- exceptional
blood loss (anemia)
- intracranial
abscess (an accumulation of pus in the brain)
- necrotizing
soft tissue infections (flesh-eating disease)
- osteomyelitis
(bone infection)
- delayed
radiation injury (e.g., radiation burns that develop after cancer therapy)
- skin
grafts and flaps that are not healing well
- thermal
burns (e.g., from fire or electrical sources)
- idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss
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