Hyperbaric oxygenotherapy

COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF INDICATIONS FOR TREATMENT

Acute (urgent) indications

• Carbon monoxide & smoke gases poisoning
• Decompression sickness
• Gas embolism
• Acute traumatic muscle ischemia, extremities crush injury
• Severe anaerobic or mixed bacterial infection of soft tissues, fasciitis, myonecrosis, gas gangrene
• Reperfusion syndrome after invasive vascular surgery
• Limb replantation

Chronic indications

• Post radiation damage (osteoradionecrosis, soft tissue necrosis, cystitis, enteritis, proctitis, larynx or CNS damage
• Preventive check upon surgical intervention: implantation on irradiated tissues, tooth extraction, diabetic defects
• Ischemic ulcers and defects defying the provision of optimal treatment
• IVth stage neuroblastoma
• Sudden deafness
• Tinnitus
• Problematic skin grafts and free muscle flaps
• Refractory chronic osteomyelitis, algoneurodystrophy, selected non-healing infected defects resistant to optimal treatment
• Acute occlusion of retinal artery
• Burns over 20 % 2nd grade TBSA (except the head, hands and perineum)
• Postanoxic encephalopathy
• Intestinal cystoid pneumatosis