Everything you need to know about hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Multiple chambers, as they are called, allow multiple patients to be treated simultaneously in the same chamber. These chambers are pressurized with air, and patients breathe in 100% oxygen while wearing clear plastic hoods that allow unobstructed vision.
In a clear acrylic chamber printed with 100% oxygen, the patient inhales the oxygen while lying on a special bed. The chamber maintains pressure and depth so that the patient can breathe in 100 percent oxygen through a hood. During oxygen breathing, the patient receives two breaks in the air during which he can remove the hood and drink water.
When the oxygen period is over, the chamber is pressed to the surface and the treatment is finished. The treatment takes place in a closed chamber where the oxygen pressure is increased.
Inhaling pure oxygen at ambient pressure increases the oxygen concentration available to the lungs up to three times. Inhaling 100% oxygen at increased pressure improves the supply of life-giving oxygen to the tissue. During treatment, the amount of oxygen in the patient’s blood also increases.
HBOT involves inhaling 100% pure oxygen in a special room called a pressure chamber. A clear acrylic hyperbaric chamber (or monoplace chamber) is pressured with 100% oxygen until the prescribed pressure is achieved. When the pressure rises, the oxygen is inhaled through the patient’s mask or oxygen hood.
The pressure of the chamber can be stopped at any time if the patient feels any discomfort. If the prescribed pressure is from 20 to 24 A.T.A., the technician puts a hood over the patient’s head and receives 100% oxygen treatment in the gas chamber.
In hyperbaric oxygen therapy, oxygen is inhaled under high pressure to fight infections and promote wound healing. It uses a special pressure chamber that increases the amount of oxygen in the blood while the wound heals. It improves oxygen supply, reduces swelling and stops infections while you relax in the chamber.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been shown to be effective in counteracting damage accumulated during radiotherapy. It helps the body to grow new capillaries and improves its ability to form new cells in the affected areas. Hyperbaric treatment can also help treat osteomyelitis, some infections, faulty grafts and valves, carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression diseases, bends, thermal burns and more. It stimulates the growth of new blood vessels in the body, increases blood circulation and allows revitalized tissue to flourish after treatment protocol is complete.
The body tissue needs oxygen to function properly, and extra oxygen can help damaged tissues. HBOT helps wound healing by bringing oxygen-rich plasma into tissues that are starving for oxygen. Oxygen at high pressure can improve tissue function and fight infections under certain conditions.
When you undergo hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) enter a special chamber and inhale pure oxygen at a pressure 1.5 to 3 times higher than the average. This provides 100 per cent of the oxygen emitted by the increased air pressure in the chamber.
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment uses a combination of increased ambient pressure and stimulating oxygen concentration to increase the amount of oxygen in the blood. The aim is to fill the blood with enough oxygen to repair tissues and restore normal body function.
The amount of oxygen in the blood allows the oxygen supply to tissues that do not receive enough oxygen, promotes the growth of new blood vessels in these tissues and helps the body to eliminate certain types of bacteria. Your blood contains more oxygen than is possible by breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure in your body, and this helps to fight bacteria, stimulates the release of substances called growth factors in stem cells and promotes healing. As your blood carries extra oxygen, the body can infuse injured tissue, which needs more oxygen to begin healing.
The use of oxygen plays an important role in wound healing, and you can support the healing process by making it more efficient. Being in this state increases the air pressure in the body and brings more oxygen to cells that need it for the process.
During the normal healing process of your body, mitochondria and stem cells need oxygen to heal wounds. Oxygen is transported from the bloodstream into the body tissue.
For those who suffer from chronic, non-healing wounds, high oxygen pressure doses can help kickstart a stalled healing process. Repeated scheduled treatments and temporarily elevated oxygen levels can promote normal oxygen levels in the tissues after completion of therapy.
Other diseases that can be treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy include serious infections, air bubbles in the blood vessels and wounds that have not healed as a result of diabetes or radiation injuries. Occasionally, side effects of increased air pressure or hyperoxia (excess oxygen in the body tissue) may occur. Oxygen poisoning can lead to seizures, fluid in the lungs, lung failure and other problems.
Hyperbaric chamber therapy (HBOT) also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment that helps to stimulate the natural healing process of the body. It is a kind of treatment used to accelerate the healing of carbon monoxide poisoning and gangrene, as well as wounds that cannot heal due to infection or deoxygenated tissues. When an approved disease is treated, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is part of a comprehensive treatment plan that also offers other therapies and medications tailored to your individual needs.
