HYPERBARIC OXYGEN TREATMENT

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the treatment of various conditions. This article lists some of these and how the therapy.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the medical use of oxygen at a higher than the atmospheric pressure.

Several principles are used in therapeutic HBOT:

* The total has increased the pressure of therapeutic value if HBOT is used to treat decompression sickness.

* For many other conditions, the principle of therapeutic HBOT has drastically increased the partial pressure of oxygen in the tissues of the body. The partial pressure of oxygen reached at HBOT are much higher than those of pure oxygen to breathe normobaric conditions (ie in normal atmospheric pressure).

* One effect is to increase oxygen-carrying capacity of blood. Under the atmospheric pressure, the transport of oxygen is limited by the ability of oxygen binding levels of haemoglobin in red blood cells and very little oxygen is transported from blood plasma. Since the hemoglobin in red blood cells is nearly saturated with oxygen atmospheric pressure, this path of traffic can not be exploited more. Transport of oxygen plasma, however, has increased significantly under HBOT.

Hypoerbaric oxygen therapy can be used to treat:

* Certain non-healing wounds (post-surgical or diabetes)
* The protection from radiation necrosis of soft tissues and radiation protection osteonecrosis
* Necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating bacteria)
* Poisoning by carbon monoxide
* Disease decompression
* Severe infection of anaerobic bacteria (such as gas gangrene)
* Air or gas embolism
* Severe anaemia Unkorrigiert
* Osteomielite chronic refractory
* Extension of healing wounds in the problem
* Sport Injury
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