Question 1

what are the benefits of hyperbaric wound care?

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Hyperbaric medicine: There are several indications for hyperbaric treatments: some are scuba diving related, some are for rare medical conditions (aspergillosis, for example), and others are found illnesses that we see in a wound center like chronic refractory osteomyelitis, a wagner iii diabetic ulceration, or from specific complications of radiation. In all cases, the high oxygen helps raise the oxygen of the tissue.

Question 2

any ideas why hyperbaric air cures most diseases?

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Oh my gosh - It : Does not treat most diseases.Approved uses for hyperbaric oxygen include:  decompression sickness, gas embolism (arterial), recalcitrant soft tissue infections ; osteomyelitis, gangrene, carbon monoxide poisoning, wounds or skin grafts/flaps that aren't healing w standard tx, crush injuries, thermal burns, delayed radiation injuries, severe anemia (due to blood loss), ; very specific indications.

Question 3

what are the most common uses for hyperbaric chambers? i've heard that athletes use them, but what medical needs are these things used for?

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Hyperbaric : Hyperbaric chambers are used for a variety of medical conditions. The two most common reasons in the practice of emergency medicine involve carbon monoxide poisoning and also diving emergencies. In carbon monoxide poisoning, the use of hyperbaric oxygen shortens the half-ilfe of carbon monoxide in the body and studies have also suggested that it helps mitigate some of the cellular damage caused by exposure to this toxin.  With regards to diving medicine, two emergencies of concern are the bends (due to too much nitrogen coming out in the form of bubbles within tissues) and pulmonary overpressurization syndromes associated with secondary air emboli. Chambers are also now used to accelerate chronic wound healing especially in individuals with poor tissue blood supply related to underlying diabetes or peripheral vascular disease.

Question 4

who cannot use a hyperbaric chamber?

Accepted Answer

Few restrictions: First you should have a diagnosis that is approved to be treated with hbo, then if you have or had certain illnesses you may be excluded- collapsed lung, detached retina, seizure disorder and even these are not hard exclusions.

Question 5

what are the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

Accepted Answer

Helps heal wounds: Two main properties by which hbot helps are (1) pressure effects and (2) effects from breathing 100% oxygen under pressure. 
Pressure effects helps with diving injuries which can result in "bends" - increased pressure allows bubbles to become smaller which can be then eliminated by the body.
Increased oxygenation helps heal  wounds such certain diabetic wounds, radiation wounds.See www.Uhms.Org.

Question 6

what are the effects of the hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

Accepted Answer

Oxygen/blood supply: Best would be to look online-- in short, the pressure forces more oxygen into solution( in blood), and this non-cellular part of the blood, plasma, can nourish parts of the skin etc that are fed by small vessels, where the cells, which usually carry most of the oxygen, are too big to reach.  This, along with the formation of new blood vessels helps healing specific wounds.  +++++.

Question 7

who cannot use a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

Accepted Answer

The following:: Must not - people with a collapsed lung or are using medications that impair wound healing (cisplatin, sulfamylon), affect the lungs (bleomycin) or other (doxorubicin, disulfiram). Might not - those with asthma, claustrophobia, copd, pregnancy, an epidural pain pump, a pacemaker, seizure disorder, upper respiratory infection, high fever, eustachian tube dysfunction, or congenital spherocytosis.

Question 8

is it possible that hyperbaric oxygen chambers can help your general health long-term?

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Maybe: There are no studies to prove long term well being is enhanced but  perhaps someone will investigate and report their findings

Question 9

basilar migr. i pass out frm them. am now using low pressure hyperbaric chamber. keeps the vle ones under co ntro. anyore research on this?

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I am skeptical: Sorry, i disagree with your diagnosis, as this is a disorder of adolescent females, not 68 Y.O. Women.  You may have migraines, but the altered consciousness episodes could more likely represent cardiac events, seizure activity, or transient ischemic attacks in the vertebrobasilar circulation.  If you have cervical spondylosis, the vertebrals may be compromised in neck.  See medical school team.

Question 10

can podiatrists prescribe hyperbaric treatments?

Accepted Answer

Yes : For foot ulceration yes. In some states for ulceration of the lower legs as well.

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