Other FDA-Approved Conditions

Other FDA-Approved Conditions for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treatments

By exposing the patient to 100% oxygen and higher atmospheric pressure, HBOT provides many benefits, including:

• Increasing the amount of oxygen intake to cells
• Aiding in circulation
• Increasing the diameter of blood vessels
• Assisting in cleansing the patient’s body of toxins
• Enhancing white blood cell action
• Rejuvenating skin cells
• Increasing energy
• Increasing endurance

• Air or gas embolism
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Enhancement of healing in diabetically derived illness such as diabetic foot, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy
• Exceptional blood loss (anemia)
• Intracranial abscess
• Clostridal myositis and myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
• Crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic ischemias
• Decompression sickness
• Necrotizing soft tissue infections (necrotizing fasciitis)
• Osteomyelitis (refractory)
• Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis)
• Skin grafts and flaps (compromised)
• Thermal burns
• Actinomycosis
• Cyanide poisoning
• Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis)