Hyperbaric Medicine

The Hyperbaric Medicine Department offers treatments to patients whom the Hyperbaric Medicine-trained physicians have examined and concluded that they may benefit from Hyperbaric Medicine to correct tissue hypoxia. The treatments for Hyperbaric Oxygen are offered on a non-emergency basis. Hyperbaric Medicine may be useful for treating:

• Acute Peripheral Arterial Insufficiency
• Previous Reconstructive Surgery
• Preparation and preservation of Compromised Skin Grafts (not primary management of wounds)
• Chronic Refractory Osteomyelitis, Unresponsive to Conventional and Surgical Management
• Osteoradionecrosis as an adjunct to conventional treatment
• Soft Tissue Radionecrosis in addition to conventional treatment
• Diabetic Wounds of the lower extremities in patients who meet the following criteria:
• Patient has type I or type II diabetes and has a lower extremity wound that is due to diabetes
• Patient has a wound classified as a Wagner grade III or higher; has failed an adequate course of standard wound therapy.
• Radiation Cystitis

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