Treatment Indications

The use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is monitored by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. HBOT is considered the standard of care, or an adjunct, for the following conditions:

Vascular Insufficiency

• Enhancement of healing in selected problem wounds
• Failed skin grafts
• Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
• Pyoderma

Ischemia

• Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic ischemias, when loss of function, limb or life is threatened 
• Crush injury-suturing of severed limbs when loss of function, limb, or life is threatened

Infections

• Subcutaneous necrotizing soft tissue infection (Flesh eating disease) 
• Actinomycosis: selected refractory anaerobic infections 
• Crepitant anaerobic cellulitis 
• Osteomyelitis (refractory) 
• Progressive bacterial gangrene 
• Nonclostridial myonecrosis 
• Fournier's disease

Effects of Radiation

• Osteoradionecrosis (particularly of the mandible) 
• Soft tissue radionecrosis, including cystitis, enteritis and proctitis 
• Surgical wounding in radiation damaged tissues

Acute Systemic

• Carbon monoxide poisoning, acute smoke inhalation 
• Cyanide poisoning 
• Air or gas embolism 
• Decompression sickness