What's HBOT?
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a treatment used to treat wounds that won’t heal.
Body tissue needs sufficient oxygen to function properly. Tissue that is injured requires even more oxygen to heal. Many difficult-to-heal wounds are “hypoxic” or deprived of oxygen.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) accelerates the body's natural healing process by increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood and delivering extra oxygen to damaged organs and tissue. HBOT enhances the effectiveness of treatment such as surgery, antibiotics, burn care, wound care and undersea and dive medicine.
During this noninvasive, painless therapy, you breathe 100 percent oxygen while lying inside a safe, sealed, pressurized environment, which can speed up healing and recovery time.
Safe, Effective Wound Healing
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is:
- Cost-effective
- Evidence-based
- Lifesaving, vision- and limb-saving
- Low-risk
- Noninvasive
- Well-tolerated
Will I Benefit From HBOT?
Your body may need extra oxygen if it’s not healing after four weeks of standard care. Your doctor may suggest hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat medical conditions, such as:
- Brain abscess
- Burns, like an acute thermal burn injury
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Crushing or traumatic injury
- Decompression sickness (the bends)
- Gas embolism
- Infection of the skin or bone that causes tissue to die
- Nonhealing wounds, such as a diabetic foot ulcer
- Radiation tissue damage (following cancer therapy)
- Severe anemia
- Sudden hearing loss or deafness
- Swelling of bone tissue (osteomyelitis)
