Conditions treated

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)

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We offer Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) approved conditions.

View the following information validating HBOT.

Attached below are:

* the UHMS 'approved indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen';
* 'Hyperbaric-Oxygen Therapy', Patrick M. Tibble MD & John S. Edelsberg, NEJM 20 June 1996; and
* 'ABC of oxygen: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy', R.M. Leach, P.J. Rees, P Wilmshurst, BMJ 24 October 1998.

You can visit the BMJ website to read the British Medical Journal (BMJ) review of HBOT, October 1998, Vol. 317, pp. 1140-3.

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Conditions commonly treated with HBOT:

* Osteoradionecrosis;
* Soft tissue radionecrosis;
* Diabetic Ulceration;
* Osteomyelitis; and
* Preservation of skin grafts and flaps.

Visit the UHMS website for scientific abstracts supporting HBOT for these conditions.

Osteoradionecrosis

Before After

Before and after 20 consecutive treatments with HBOT at 2 ata. The mandible is now ready for the plate to be removed and a rotation flap constructed.

Soft tissue radionecrosis

Before After

Radiotherapy post-surgical resection of an ethmoid tumour has resulted in wound dehiscence. 20 treatments of HBOT at 2ata have allowed a rotation flap to take.

Selected problem wounds including diabetic ulceration

Probe placement for transcutaneous study

These articles discuss the use of HBOT in healing wounds and diabetic ulceration:

* 'The Adjunctive Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Lower Extremity Wounds in Patients with Diabetes', Diabetic Spectrum Vol. 10 No. 2, 1997, pp. 118-123, by Jeffrey A. Stone DO MPH & Paul Cianci MD FACP.
* 'Systemic Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Lower-extremity wound healing and the diabetic foot', by Robert P. Wunderlich DPM, Edgar J.G. Peters MD & Lawrence A. Lavery DPM MPH.

They are attached below.