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The following is the list of conditions treated in Hyperbaric Oxygenation units, considered by the International Hyperbaric Medical Association (IHMA) as accepted conditions.

Hyperbaric Worx currently treats many of these listed conditions at our centres.


Some conditions are best treated in hospital based Hyperbaric Chambers and may be covered by Medicare in Australia. Please call us for more information on all listed conditions.

Summary of International Indications for HBO (Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine by K.K. Jain.)



Plastic and reconstructive surgery:

  • for nonhealing wounds
  • as an aid to the survival of skin flaps with marginal circulation
  • as an aid to reimplantation surgery
  • as an adjunct to the treatment of burns
Traumatology:
  • crush injuries,
  • compartment syndrome,
  • soft tissue injuries
  • sports injuries
Orthopedics:
  • non union of fractures,
  • bone grafts,
  • osteoradionecrosis
Neurological:
  • stroke,
  • multiple sclerosis,
  • migraine,
  • cerebral edema,
  • multi-infarct dementia,
  • spinal cord injury
  • vascular diseases of the spinal cord,
  • brain abscess,
  • peripheral neuropathy,
  • radiation myelitis,
  • vegetative coma
Asphyxiation:
  • drowning,
  • near hanging,
  • smoke inhalation
Aid to rehabilitation:
  • spastic hemiplegia of stroke,
  • paraplegia,
  • chronic myocardial insufficiency,
  • peripheral vascular disease.
Treatment of certain infections:
  • gas gangrene,
  • acute necrotizing fascitis,
  • refractory mycoses,
  • leprosy,
  • osteomyelitis
Vascular diseases:
  • shock,
  • myocardial ischemia,
  • aid to cardiac surgery

 

Peripheral vascular disease:

  • ischemic gangrene,
  • ischemic leg pain
Poisoning:
  • carbon monoxide,
  • cyanide,
  • hydrogen sulfide,
  • carbon tetrachloride.
Hematology:
  • sickle cell crises,
  • severe blood loss anemia
Ophthalmology:
  • occlusion of central artery of retina
  • macular degeneration
Gastro-intestinal:
  • gastric ulcer,
  • necrotizing enterocolitis,
  • paralytic ileus,
  • pneumotoides cystoides intestinalis,
  • hepatitis
For enhancement of radiosensitivity of malignant tumors

Otorhinolaryngology:
  • sudden deafness,
  • acute acoustic trauma,
  • labyrinthitis,
  • Meniere's disease,
  • malignant otitis externa (chronic infection)
Lung diseases:
  • lung abscess,
  • pulmonary embolism (adjunct to surgery)
Endocrines:
  • diabetes
Obstetrics:
  • Complicated pregnancy - diabetes,
  • eclampsia,
  • heart disease,
  • placental hypoxia,
  • fetal hypoxia.
  • Congenitalheart disease of the neonate
Air embolism

Decompression sickness

 
 
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