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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is administered in a single patient hyperbaric chamber that delivers 100% oxygen to patients in an environment of increased atmospheric pressure. The therapy works throughout your entire body as the increased level of oxygen enters the blood and body tissues.
Hyperbaric chambers hold the whole patient, and are constructed of clear acrylic plastic to allow a full view outside of the chamber, and allow our staff to monitor and support critically ill patients. While hyperbaric oxygen therapy was initially used to treat divers with decompression sickness, its role has expanded to become a treatment for many other illnesses and medical conditions like healing chronic wounds. Patients with diabetes often develop severe non-healing wounds that require surgical intervention. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has proven to be a valuable therapy for these patients. Patients with pressure ulcers, arterial ulcers and other types of wounds that fail to respond to conservative therapy may also be candidates for hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Medicare approved conditions treated by hyperbaric oxygen therapy include:
- Actinomycosis
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Gas gangrene
- Preparation and preservation of compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Chronic refractory osteomyelitis (bone infections)
- Progressive narcotizing infections
- Crush injuries
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Decompression illness
- Gas embolism
- Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
- Soft tissue radionecrosis (radiation tissue damage)
- Cyanide poisoning
Other conditions that are covered by many insurance companies include:
- Acute blood loss anemia
- Burns
- Smoke inhalation
- Brown Recluse Spider bites
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