HBOT for Other Conditions
Remote monitor at nursing station shows a patient undergoing hyperbaric oxygen treatment at the Center for Advanced Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden.
Conditions to which HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy) is additionally or less commonly applied include:
- air or gas embolism;
- carbon monoxide poisoning complicated by cyanide poisoning and smoke inhalation;
- Clostridial myositis and myonecrosis (gas gangrene);
- crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemias;
- damage to nerves or other tissue from diabetes;
- decompression sickness (the bends);
- inflammatory bowel disease;
- intracranial abscess;
- Lyme disease;
- migraines;
- necrotizing soft tissue infections;
- and stroke, among others.
