Indications
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Hyperbaric Oxygen is a medication just like any other, it has its own dosage, concentration and time of action, also it needs a medical indication and prescription to use it.
The specialists with the competence of prescription of hyperbaric oxygen are only those physicians with degree in hyperbarics.
Red indications are considered emergencies and must be attend immediate by the Emergency Room
EUROPEAN CONSENSUS INDICATIONS
1. CO poisoning
2. Open fractures with crush injury
3. Prevention of osteoradionecrosis after dental extraction
4. Osteoradionecrosis (mandible)
5. Soft tissue radionecrosis (cystitis, proctitis)
6. Decompression illness
7. Gas embolism
8. Anaerobic or mixed bacterial infections
9. Sudden deafness
10. Interstitial cystitis
11. Diabetic foot lesions
12. Femoral head necrosis
13. Compromised skin grafts and musculo- cutaneous
14. Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO)
15. Crush Injury without fracture
16. Osteoradionecrosis (bones other than mandible)
17. Radio-induced lesions of soft tissues (other than cystitis and proctitis)
18. Surgery and implant in irradiated tissue (preventive treatment)
19. Ischaemic ulcers
20. Refractory chronic osteomyelitis
21. Burns, 2nd degree more than 20% BSA
22. Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis
23. Neuroblastoma, stage IV
24. Brain injury (acute and chronic TBI, chronic stroke.
25. post anoxic encephalopathy) in highly selected patients
26. Radio-induced lesions of larynx
27. Radio-induced lesions of the CNS
28. Post-vascular procedure reperfusion syndrome.
29. Limb replantation
30. Selected non-healing wounds secondary to systemic processes
31. Sickle cell disease
AMERICAN BOARD INDICATIONS
UHMS - Undersea Hyperbaric Medicine Society
1. Air Or Gas Embolism
2. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
3. Clostridial Myositis And Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)
4. Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome And Other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
5. Decompression Sickness
6. Arterial Insufficiencies
7. Severe Anemia
8. Intracranial Abscess
9. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
10. Osteomyelitis (Refractory)
11. Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue And Bony Necrosis)
12. Compromised Grafts And Flaps
13. Acute Thermal Burn Injury
14. Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss