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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

  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complicated by Cyanide Poisoning

  • Clostridal Myositis and Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)

  • Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome, and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias

  • Decompression Sickness

  • Enhancement of Healing in Selected Problem Wounds

  • Severe Anemia

  • Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections

  • Refractory Osteomyelitis

  • Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)

  • Compromised Skin Grafts & Flaps

 

In addition, Medicare coverage determinations will reimburse in the U.S. for the following conditions :

  • Patient has type I or type II diabetes and has a lower extremity wound that is due to diabetes;

  • Patient has a wound classified as Wagner grade III or higher; and

  • Patient has failed an adequate course of standard wound therapy.

  • Acute Thermal Burn Injury

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