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hot_prove.jpg (15920 bytes) The Hyperbaric and Problem Wound Center at Mercy Hospital

In 1977, the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) created the Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy Committee to review and evaluate current and potential uses for HBOT. In the Committee Report, HBOT is indicated as therapy for 13 clinical conditions, including:
  1. Air or Gas Embolism
  2. Decompression Sickness (The Bends)
  3. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation
  4. Gas Gangrene
  5. Crush Injury and Traumatic Wounds
  6. Problem Wounds
  7. Compromised Skin Grafts,Flaps and Replants
  8. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
  9. Refractory Osteomyelitis
  10. Radiation Tissue Damage
  11. Thermal Burns
  12. Exceptional Blood Loss Anemia
  13. Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen in Intracranial Abcess(refer to page 8 for detailed descriptions of clinical conditions)
The use of HBOT first began in 1939, when the Navy reported success in treating decompression sickness with high-pressure oxygen. In the years since, thousands of published experiments and clinical trials have established a body of knowledge about the physiological and mechanical effects of HBOT. 

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