Hyperbaric
Oxygen Therapy
Wound Care and
Hyperbaric Medicine
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a process in which
a patient breathes 100 percent oxygen at above-normal atmospheric pressure, increasing
the delivery of oxygen to the body. This oxygen enhances the body’s natural
healing process. Studies show the treatment to be very helpful in aiding the
body’s recovery from certain kinds of wounds and other medical injuries.
In wound care, HBOT is used for select chronic, non-healing wounds,
osteomyelitis, and failing skin grafts and flaps. The compromised tissue is
super-saturated with oxygen and new capillary growth occurs. There are many
benefits to augmenting wound treatment with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, i.e.
hyperoxygenation, angiogenesis, fibroblast proliferation, leukocyte oxidative
killing, toxin inhibition and antibiotic synergies. Patients will be given a
treatment plan tailored to their individual medical needs.
With chronic, non-healing wounds becoming a multi-million dollar healthcare
problem, Kindred Hospital is ready to meet the growing
demands for hyperbaric oxygen treatment.
Types of wounds treated include:
- Acute Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning
- Decompression Sickness
- Gas Embolism
- Gas Gangrene
- Acute Traumatic Peripheral
Ischemia
- Crush Injuries and Suturing
of Severed Limbs
- Necrotizing Fasciitis
- Acute Peripheral Arterial
Insufficiency
- Preservation of Compromised Skin
Grafts, excludes artificial skin graft
- Chronic Refractory
Osteomyelitis
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Soft Tissue Radionecrosis
- Cyanide Poisoning
- Actinomyeosis
- Diabetic Wounds of the Lower
Extremities
For more information, call 702.352.9311, or for 24-hour Referral 702.686.2746.