CONDITIONS BEING TREATED WITH HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY (HBOT)

Following is a list of conditions currently being treated with HBOT worldwide. Most are considered experimental and controversial by the mainstream medical community, with only testimonials and anecdotal evidence for benefit. Medical insurance in the United States and elsewhere will often refuse payment.

(Conditions marked with an asterisk * below are sometimes reimbursed for a short time by Medicare and other medical insurance in the U.S., but only if strictly defined diagnostic criteria are met.)

EMERGENCY INDICATIONS

• Air or gas embolism* (in divers, but can also occur during bypass surgery)
• Bends in divers (decompression sickness)*
• Blast injury
• Burns* (thermal burns)
• Carbon monoxide poisoning* (insurance usually stops paying before all brain injury has fully improved)
• Cerebral edema
• Closed head injuries (traumatic brain injury)
• Crisis of sickle cell anemia
• Cyanide Poisoning*
• Exceptional Blood Loss Anemia*
• Gas gangrene*
• Hydrogen sulfide poisoning
• Ileus
• Near-drowning
• Near-electrocution
• Near-hanging
• Peyote poisoning
• Severed limbs
• Smoke inhalation
• Stroke (cerebral infarct, with benefit even long after the event)

SPECIFIC NEUROLOGIC INDICATIONS

• Autism
• Air embolism*
  • Decompression induced (divers)
  • Iatrogenic (bypass surgery, injected, etc.)
• Cerebral edema
  • Toxic encephalopathy
  • Vascular compromise
  • Traumatic
• Cerebral Palsy (CP)
• Spinal cord contusion
  • Physiological transaction
  • Partial motor or sensory loss
• Early organic brain syndrome
  • Small vessel disease
  • Multiple small infarcts
• Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Stroke (acute and chronic residuals)
• Vegetative coma (acute and prolonged)
  • Closed head injury
  • Hypoxic encephalopathy (suffocation, drowning, strangulation, cardiac arrest, near hanging, near choking, lightening strikes, etc.)
• Multiple sclerosis
  • Acute
  • Relapsing/ remitting
  • Chronic progressive
• Brain dysfunction following bypass surgery and angioplasty
• Cranial nerve syndromes
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Optic neuritis
  • Vestibular disorders (vertigo, tinnitus, Meniere's syndrome)
  • Sudden deafness
  • Brain stem syndromes (ischemia, infarct)
  • Retinal artery occlusion
  • Acoustic trauma
• Peripheral neuropathy
  • Charcot Marie's tooth disease
  • Radiation myelitis
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Near Drowning
• Sympathetic Reflex Dystrophy

ORTHOPEDIC INDICATIONS

• Crush injuries* (vascular compromise)
• Soft tissue swelling
  • Traumatic
  • Cellulitis* (infection/mixed flora)
• Compartment syndrome*
• Acute necrotizing fasciitis (so-called "flesh-eating bacteria")*
• Necrotizing soft tissue infections*
• Clostridial myonecrosis* (gas gangrene)
• Severed limbs and digits*
• Acute and chronic osteomyelitis* (bone infection)
• Bone grafting
• Fracture healing and nonunion*
• Aseptic necrosis
• Tendon and ligament injuries, post-surgical repair
• Delayed wound healing
• Stump infections (following amputation)
• Edema under cast
• Sports injuries

MISCELLANEOUS INDICATIONS

• Peripheral vascular ulcer*
  • Arterial (atherosclerosis)
  • Decubitus (bed sores)
  • Neuropathy related (diabetes)
  • Venous (deep vein thrombosis complication)
  • Diabetic
• Gangrene (wet and dry, atherosclerosis, more common in diabetes)
• Compromised Skin Flaps and Grafts*
• Autism
• Abscesses* (intra-abdominal and intracranial)
• Buerger's disease
• Biliary atresia (after surgical correction)
• Carbon tetrachloride poisoning
• Fibromyalgia
• Frostbite
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Glaucoma with visual field loss
• Diabetic ulcers*
• Gulf War Syndrome
• Retinal artery occlusion
• Retinal vein thrombosis
• Lepromatous leprosy
• Lyme disease
• Melaney ulcer* (flesh-eating bacteria)
• Meningitis
• Migraine
• Osteoradionecrosis* (post radiation damage)
• Pancreatitis
• Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis
• Pseudomembranous colitis
• Plastic surgery (speed healing, reduce scar and infection)
• Rheumatoid arthritis (acute)
• Brown Recluse Spider Bite
• Scleroderma
• Sickle cell crisis and hematuria
• Peptic ulcer
• Plastic Surgery, speeds healing with less scar
• Myocardial infarction
• Slow healing wounds
• Potentiate antibiotic therapy
• Post-cardiotomy and low output heart failure
• Radiation cystitis and enteritis*
• Refractory mycoses* (fungal infections)
• Suturing of Severed Limbs*
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Cerebral palsy
• Post-polio syndrome
• Cirrhosis
• Immune System Enhancement
• Crohn's disease
• Ulcerative colitis
• ALS
• Parkinson's Disease

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