
Uses of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Another way to prevent complications is to use HBOT only as intended. HBOT is used to treat many different health conditions including:
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Cyanide poisoning
- Injury from crushing
- Gas gangrene, a form of gangrene in which gas collects in tissues
- Decompression sickness
- Sudden or traumatic inadequate blood flow in the arteries
- Select wound healing
- Skin grafts and flaps
- Infection in a bone called osteomyelitis
- Delayed radiation injury
- Flesh-eating disease called necrotizing bacterial soft tissue infections
- Air or gas bubble trapped in a blood vessel. This is known as an air or gas embolism.
- Long-term (chronic) infection called actinomycosis
- Diabetic wounds that are not healing properly