Hyperbaric oxygen is used to treat all conditions which benefit from increased tissue oxygen availability, as well as infections where it can be used for its antibiotic properties, either as the primary therapy, or in conjunction with other drugs.

 

Hyperbaric therapy can help wounds, especially infected wounds, heal more quickly. The therapy may be used to treat:

• Air or gas embolism

• Bone infections (osteomyelitis)

• Burns

• Carbon monoxide poisoning

• Decompression sickness (for example, a diving injury)

• Gas gangrene

• Necrotizing soft tissue infections

• Radiation injury (example, damage from radiation therapy for cancer)

• Skin grafts/flaps

• Wounds that have not healed with other treatments (example, diabetic foot ulcers or wounds complicated by insufficient blood flow)