Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has been used in human medicine for years in the treatment of acute and chronic diseases that suffer from a lack of oxygen.  Safely and painlessly, oxygen delivered to the patient in the hyperbaric chamber is inhaled and absorbed by the body at pressure many times greater than when breathing oxygen at normal sea level pressure. Under hyperbaric pressure, healing oxygen is dissolved in the blood plasma, cerebrospinal and lymph fluids, enabling oxygen to reach damaged tissue at least 3 to 4 times farther than normally diffused by red blood cells. This is especially important in swollen and inflamed tissues where small blood vessels have been spread apart and oxygen from red blood cells is unable to diffuse out far enough to supply the needs of damaged cells.

The application for HBOT in veterinary medicine are much the same as in human medicine- increased oxygen delivery to cells in the body.  The result of the increased delivery of oxygen to damaged tissues is the relief of inflammation, pressure and edema caused by injury or infection.  In addition, the increased levels of oxygen promotes angiogenesis (new blood vessel formation), stimulates wound healing and can help the body fight infection.

 

Some of the medical conditions that benefit from HBOT include:

Neurology
•    Head trauma swelling reduction: immediate
•    Brain tumor swelling reduction
•    Intervertebral disc disease – reduce acute inflammation, restore deep pain, use for surgical partial improvement or failures.
•    Intracranial abscessation/granuloma
•    Cerebral edema
•    Acute nerve injury/crush or trauma
•    Cutaneous, decubitus and stasis ulcers
•    Stroke victims
•    Tetanus
•    Degenerative myelopathies

Emergency medicine
•    All of the above
•    Acute carbon monoxide intoxication
•    Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
•    Crush injuries
•    Laryngeal paralysis crisis
•    Exceptional blood loss crisis
•    Severe soft tissue infections
•    Thermal burns
•    Smoke inhalation
•    Cardiogenic shock
•    Aerobic or anaerobic septicemia
•    Myocardial infarction
•    Pulmonary emphysema
•    Pancreatitis
•    Pyothorax
•    Near drowning
•    Snake bites

Internal medicine
•    All of the above
•    Gangrene
•    Progressive necrotizing infections
•    Osteomyelitis
•    Clostridial myositis
•    Radiation injury or post radiation therapy
•    Cognitive performance and age related cognitive dysfunction
•    Hepatic necrosis
•    Severe rhinitis/sinusitis

Surgery
•    All of the above
•    Skin grafts and flaps
•    All non-healing wounds
•    Wound healing enhancement
•    Post-operative swelling
•    Arthritic disease
•    Swelling associated with fractures/trauma

 

In addition to the conditions above, HBOT is well documented to stimulate stem cell activity in the body.  This creates a great potential synergism when HBOT is combined with stem cell therapy.  While this synergism has not been well studied yet, there is great promise that we may be able to effectively treat diseases that until now, had no effective treatment.  This is truly, cutting edge medicine.

 

 

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