Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a therapeutic method in which pure oxygen is breathed at partial pressures higher than atmospheric pressure in a hyperbaric chamber. The patient is comfortably seated or lying inside the chamber where he breathes pure oxygen. This oxygen dissolves in arterial, venous and plasma blood, with therapeutic effects.

Here we present additional information about Hyperbaric Medicine – Success Cases – by our Dr. Vilma Bofill

Trauma with risk of amputation, treatment of 20 HBO sessions

82 Year Old Patient with Chronic Varicose Ulcers (60 Sessions)

Diabetic foot patient. Risk of amputation (40 HBO sessions)

INDICATIONS

The indications for therapies can be classified according to the immediacy of the need for care.

Scheduled Cases

They respond to pathologies that are generally refractory to conventional treatments. They are generally chronic hypoxic wounds that improve with the presence of hyperbaric oxygen.

Refractory lesions: skin ulcers, diabetic foot, ulna ulcers, ulcers due to autoimmune vasculitis.
Radiation injuries: radionecrosis, osteoradionecrosis and actinic mucosal injuries.
Osteomyelitis

Special cases

This type of treatment responds to selected cases where the requirement of hyperbaric oxygen is immediate in some cases.

Compromised or risky flaps and grafts.
Acute anemia in cases of impossibility of transfusions.
Sudden deafness.

Emergencies

In emergencies absolute start is recommended.

Decompression sickness.
Traumatic air embolism.
Air embolism.
CO poisoning or smoke inhalation.
Hydrogen cyanide / sulfide gas poisoning.

Emergencies

In these cases, HBO (Hyperbaric Oxygenation) is an adjuvant treatment and the start of it will be defined according to the clinical conditions and other procedures, it is advisable to start the treatment as soon as possible to obtain better results.

Gas gangrene
Fournier syndrome
Thermal and electrical burns.
Acute traumatic ischemia: crush injury.
Necrotizing soft tissue infections: cellulitis, fasciitis, myocytes.
Acute vasculitis of allergic, drug or biological toxin etymology (arachnids, snakes and insects).

Here at Casa Pance Medical Treatment the hyperbaric medicine service is led by Dr. Vilma Bofill Ibarra, a doctor graduated from the University of Havana-Cuba with a Master’s degree in hyperbaric and underwater medicine from the University of Barcelona-Spain. The RETHUS (Unique national registry of human talent in health) is validated and is duly registered.