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. 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:
- 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
- Exceptional Blood Loss (Anemia)
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
- Refractory Osteomyelitis
- Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)
- Compromised Skin Grafts & Flaps
- Thermal Burns
- Intracranial Abscess
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.
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