Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
The center has two Hyperbaric rooms, each with 12 seats.
What it is
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) is a therapy based on the administration of pure oxygen in particular environments with pressure higher than atmospheric pressure, defined as hyperbaric chambers.
The patient receives, through a mask, the amount of oxygen necessary to the treatment of his disease with daily sessions or repeated in the same day.
The sessions of Hyperbaric oxygen therapy could be prescribed by the doctor with a specialist prescription.
Procedures for Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Presentation of the recipe directly to the Hyperbaric Unit
- Registration of the patient
Therapeutic indications
Diseases for which the therapy is particularly indicated
Diseases where treatment in a hyperbaric chamber is particularly indicated are:
- Decompression sickness (a complication of diving);
- Arterial gas embolism
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- CO2 Intoxication (carbon dioxide) and other substances that cause methemoglobinemia
- Infection caused by germs obligate anaerobes
- Infections caused by mixed bacterial flora
- Cerebral hypoxia (pseudotumor cerebri)
- Fetal placental insufficiency (IUGR)
- Epidermolysis bullosa (Lyell’s syndrome)
- Disease Silvestroni White (Sickle cell anemia and spherocytosis with hemolytic crisis) Crush Syndrome
Diseases for which the therapy is suggested
Hyperbaric treatment is useful in combination with other therapies for the following diseases:
- Wet gangrene in diabetic people (diabetic foot)
- Soft tissue injury caused by mixed bacterial flora
- Crush syndrome
- Ischemia or necrosis caused by postradiation therapy
- Traumatic or vascular sudden deafness
- Fractures at risk
- Acute and chronic ischemia post-traumatic
- Acute and chronic refractory osteomyelitis
- Bedsores
- Infected nonunion
- Skin grafts at risk
- Arterial and venous ulcers
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Ischemic diabetic retinopathy
- Thrombosis of retinal artery or vein
- Extensive burns and illnesses caused by burns
Raffaele Costanzo
Technical manager
