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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
 Johnston Therapeutic Wound Clinic
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is an intermittent treatment of 100% oxygen at increased atmospheric pressure, roughly equivalent to what a SCUBA diver would experience at around 30 feet below the water's surface. Patients receive treatment while they relax in a transparent, cylindrical chamber. This therapy promotes blood vessel formation, increases oxygen flow to damaged tissues, reduces swelling, allows the body to kill germs and promotes healing, all by supplying 100% oxygen to the body at a high concentration. Only about 15% of Wound Healing Center patients require hyperbaric oxygen therapy, but for those who do, the improvement can be substantial.
Indications: UHMS Approved Uses for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Air or Gas Embolism
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation
- Carbon Monoxide Complicated By Cyanide Poisoning Clostridial Myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
- Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
- Decompression Sickness
- Enhancement in Healing in Selected Problem Wounds
- Exceptional Blood Loss (anemia)
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections (subcutaneous tissue, muscle, fascia)
- Osteomyelitis (chronic refactory)
- Radiation Tissue Damage (osteo and soft tissue radionecrosis)
- Skin Grafts and Flaps (compromised)
- Thermal Burns
- Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen in Intracranial Abscess
- Additional Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Spider Bites - brown recluse
- Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning
- Cyanide Poisoning
- Selecte refractory anaerobic infection
- Pyoderma
For more information about the Wound Healing Center or to make an appointment, call 919-938-7716.
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