Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a non-invasive medical treatment that uses pressurized oxygen provided in a comfortable chamber to enhance the body's natural healing process.

At Atlantic Health System, we use HBOT for the treatment of:

Diabetic indications

• Acute peripheral insufficiency (as it pertains to Diabetic Foot Wounds)
• Diabetic wounds of specific severity 

Trauma

• Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
• Crush Injury wounds
• Degloving injury 

Specific Infectious Disease indication

• Gas gangrene, such as clostridial myositis and myonecrosis
• Necrotizing infections
• Chronic bone infections, or refractory osteomyelitis 

Delay Radiation Injury

• Head and neck cancer patients who need oral surgery
• Radiation bladder problems, or hemorrhagic cystitis
• Radiation bone damage, or osteoradionecrosis
• Radiation bowel problems, or radiation proctitis
• Radiation wounds 

Other Indications

• Hearing loss, such as idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss
• Preservation of skin grafts and flaps

Learn more about our wound healing program >