Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

TO FIND A HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY (HBOT) FACILITY NEAR YOU

1. Click on the Internet link below. To find a HBO facility near you, enter your state as the keyword and click on "Start Search." You may also search surrounding states. (We only updaed have information for the USA.)

Click here for a directory of HBO Chamber Locations

WARNING: Some listed clinics may be using low pressure plastic air oxygen, using room air and little or no oxygen. This is not full HBO Therapy. Also, insure that fully trained personnel are on site.

Many HBOT facilities will only treat a few conditions now approved by the FDA and Medicare. Only free-standing facilities not installed in a hospital will treat cerebral palsy, stroke patients, traumatic brain injury, non-healing ulcers and other conditions not yet approved by the FDA (see a more complete list of off-label conditions below). The directory above should provide you with information about treated conditions. You may get some inappropriate answers. For example, a facility in a different state but with a street address containing your state's name, and Washington D. C. might show up with Washington State and vice versa. With a few tries you should find a selection of facilities closest to you. Scroll down and look at all responses. Click on the link below to search for hyperbaric oxygen facilities.

Click here for a directory of HBO Chamber Locations

WARNING: Some listed clinics may be using low pressure plastic air bags, using room air, approved only for mountain sickness, and not fireproof in 100% oxygen, not approved for use with high oxygen concentration. Also, insure that fully trained personnel are on site.

Some HBOT facilities do not have fully trained and medically credentialed staff in attendance. Hospital facilities usually refuse to treat conditions that are not yet approved by the FDA. Be sure to ask. Medical insurance will commonly refuse to reimburse for conditions not approved by the FDA.
Don’t be fooled by claims that a pressurized plastic bag can provide hyperbaric oxygen therapy. To safely administer oxygen requires much more elaborate equipment. It is true that 1.3 times atmospheric pressure (5 psi) of ambient air (not oxygen) can safely be pumped into those portable bags, much like an air mattress. They are FDA approved for use with air (not oxygen) to treat altitude sickness. It is also true that 1.3 atmospheres of ambient air pressure may be of slight benefit for some conditions. The problem arises when oxygen is used. The portable plastic bags are not fire proof. They are not safe from an explosion hazard in the presence of 100% oxygen. A minor spark from static electricity could cause a major disaster.

For full benefit, it is best to receive a series treatments fairly close together, at least once per week for a number of consecutive weeks. Twice daily treatments are possible if separated by at least 4 hours. If a facility cannot be found within a reasonable distance, it may be more convenient to find housing close to the HBO facility while receiving therapy.

Patients come from around the world for therapy at the Mount Rainier Clinic, near Seattle. Prices are reasonable and inexpensive housing is available close by. The staff is exceptionally well qualified. Click below for links to the clinic website.

http://www.drcranton.com

http://drcranton.com/hbo.htm

Conditions Which may be Reimbursable by Medical Insurance (strict criteria must first be met): Click here for more details

* Decompression Sickness (Bends)
* Air or Gas Embolism
* Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Cyanide Poisoning
* Osteomyelitis – unresponsive and failed with other treatment (refractory)
* Osteoradionecrosis
* Non-healing Wounds, Diabetic and selected problem wounds (must meet strict criteria)
* Some Skin grafts & Flaps (compromised)
* Crush injury, Compartment Syndrome, Acute Amputations, Limb Salvage and Limb Reattachment
* Exceptional Blood Loss Anemia
* Some Thermal Burns (must meet strict criteria)
* Gas Gangrene
* Radiation Tissue Damage
* Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection (Flesh Eating bacteria)

"So-called “Off-Label" Conditions Not Yet Reimbursable by Insurance
(yet all might be appropriate indications for a trail of hyperbaric oxygen therapy)
* Stroke –both acute and delayed treatment, thrombotic and hemorrhagic
* Cerebral Palsy
* Autism
* Macular Degeneration
* Alzheimer’s Syndrome
* Parkinson’s Syndrome
* Multi-infarct Dementia
* Traumatic Brain Injury
* Cognitive Dysfunction following Bypass Surgery
* Near Drowning
* Chemical Poisonings that affect the Brain
* Peripheral Vascular Disease
* Adjunct to Antibiotics in Slow-healing or Otherwise Serious Infections

* Multiple Sclerosis
* Peripheral Neuropathy
* Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
* Gulf War Syndrome
* Non-healing and Slow-healing Wounds
* Non-healing and Slow-healing Bone Fractures
* Immune System Enhancement
* Fibromyalgia
* Lyme Disease
* Migraine
* Brown Recluse Spider Bite
* Elective Plastic Surgery – may speed healing from laser and other types of plastic surgery
* Sports Injuries

clinics.

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