HBOT & Wounds/Plastics

Conditions Benefitted

  • Non-healing wounds
  • Necrotizing infections
  • Acute traumatic ischemia
  • Compromised Skin flaps/grafts
  • Post surgical soft tissue infections
  • Non-healing post surgery, reconstruction and cosmetic surgery
  • Pre and post surgery healing, reconstruction and cosmetic surgery

How will YOUR patient benefit?

HBOT effects wound healing in the following ways:
  • HBO2 promotes growth of new blood vessels (neovascularization)
  • New vasculature for healing needs a supporting structure of collagen. The collagen production and incorporation process needs oxygen
  • Increased oxygen tension in tissue increases oxygen-dependent killing of anaerobes by leukocytes, and also has direct toxic effects
  • Increased oxygen tension allows greater capillary oxygen diffusion distances
Many patients, when following closely the prescribed protocol for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy notice the following cumulative benefits from the oxygen: from HBO textbook, page 159 HBOT and Graft/Flap survival
  • Oxygen availability is critical to skin grafting success. HBO2 increases tissue oxygen levels in hypoxic and ischemic wounds.
  • HBO2 stimulates formation of blood vessels and granulation tissue, and prepares the recipient bed for grafts or flaps
  • In some cases, HBO2 will be enough to make skin grafting unnecessary, or reduce regrafting and repeat graft procedures
Click on the link below to see what conditions related to your medical field are treatable with Hyperbarics. View Conditions Contact

Contraindications

To see a PDF file detailing reasons why you might not prescribe HBOT, click below. Contraindications (PDF)