WHAT IS HBOT?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a clinical treatment where the patient breathes 100% oxygen intermittently while enclosed in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at a pressure greater than one atmosphere.
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HBOT has been proven effective for many medical conditions, and as a result the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, one of the premier research institutes, has approved it to treat the following indications:
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Air or Gas Embolism
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complicated by Cyanide Poisoning
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Clostridal Myositis and Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)
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Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome, and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
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Decompression Sickness
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Enhancement of Healing in Selected Problem Wounds
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Severe Anemia
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Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
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Refractory Osteomyelitis
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Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)
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Compromised Skin Grafts & Flaps
In addition, Medicare coverage determinations will reimburse in the U.S. for the following conditions :
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Patient has type I or type II diabetes and has a lower extremity wound that is due to diabetes;
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Patient has a wound classified as Wagner grade III or higher; and
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Patient has failed an adequate course of standard wound therapy.
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Acute Thermal Burn Injury