Duke Center For Hyperbaric Medicine And Environmental Physiology

Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

  1. Air or gas embolism
  2. Decompression illness
  3. Carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation
  4. Clostridial myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
  5. Crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemias
  6. Enhance healing in selected problem wounds
  7. Exceptional blood loss or severe anemia
  8. Necrotizing soft tissue infections (subcutaneous tissue, muscle, fascia)
  9. Refractory osteomyelitis
  10. Radiation tissue damage (osteoradionecrosis and soft tissue radionecrosis)
  11. Compromised skin grafts and flaps
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