The air pressure inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber is about two and a half times higher than the normal pressure in the atmosphere. This helps your blood carry more oxygen to organs and tissues in your body. Hyperbaric therapy can help wounds, especially infected wounds, heal more quickly. The therapy may be used to treat:
Air or gas embolism
Bone infections (osteomyelitis) that have not improved with other treatments
Burns
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Certain types of brain or sinus infections
Decompression sickness (for example, a diving injury)
Gas gangrene
Necrotizing soft tissue infections
Radiation injury (for example, damage from radiation therapy for cancer)
Skin grafts …...more
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