Elective Conditions
Crush injuries occur when body tissues are severely traumatized such as in motor vehicle accidents, falls, and gun shot wounds.
Abscess formation in the brain can be a devastating complication of sinus infections or bone infections (osteomyelitis) of the skull. Occasionally, abscesses are seeded from infection occurring in other parts of the body. Brain abscesses are...
Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone. Refractory osteomyelitis is a bone infection which has not responded to appropriate treatment. Hyperbaric oxygen increases the oxygen concentration in infected tissues, including bone.
Thermal burn injuries, if not fatal, can cause disastrous long-term physical and emotional disability for the survivor.
Reconstructing complex wounds is accomplished by shifting or transferring tissues to the wound from a different part of the body.
A number of types of infections of soft tissue may benefit from adjunct treatment with hyperbaric oxygen and are included in the category of “necrotizing soft tissue infections.” Names of such clinical syndromes include crepitant...
For purpose of consideration of the use of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy, exceptional bloodloss anemia is by definition loss of enough red blood cell mass to compromise sufficient oxygen delivery to tissue in patients who cannot be transfused for...
Problem wounds are those which fail to respond to established medical and surgical management. Such wounds usually develop in compromised hosts with multiple local and systemic factors contributing to inhibition of tissue repair. These include...
Clostridial myositis and myonecrosis is an acute, rapidly progressive infection of the soft tissues commonly known as “gas gangrene.” The infection is caused by one of several bacteria in the group known as “clostridium.”...