Current Approach to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Abstract

Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is a therapy method based on inhalation of 100% pure oxygen through a mask or endotracheal tube or directly from the environment while subjected to a fully closed pressure chamber with >1 atmosphere. It has been successfully used to treat many diseases from different medical specialties. This review, apart from describing the general features of HBO therapy, emphasises on its therapeutic application in different medical specialties. This would promote its usage, alongside other methods, by physicians from different clinical fields.

Keywords

• hyperbaric oxygen
• decompression illness
• carbon monoxide
• diabetic foot
• vascular disease
• osteomyelitis
• post-operative wounds
• crush
• grafts flaps
• filling injection complications
• radionecrosis
• sudden deafness
• sudden blindness