Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Wounds
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is the therapeutic use of oxygen at pressures greater than atmospheric, where the patient’s entire body is placed inside a chamber to achieve this systemic effect. Phoebe Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine in Albany, Georgia, provides HBOT for patients with certain types of non-healing wounds.
HBOT treats the following conditions:
- Air or Gas Embolism
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complicated by Cyanide Poisoning
- Clostridal Myositis and Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)
- Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
- Decompression Sickness
- Enhancement of Healing in Selected Problem Wounds, especially diabetics
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
- Osteomyelitis (Refractory)
- Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)
- Skin Grafts and Flaps (Compromised)