General Surgery
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can serve as a powerful adjunctive treatment for surgical patients, both post-operatively and pre-operatively.
HBOT improves all stages of wound healing, especially in slow or difficult healing wounds, regardless of body region, often due to comorbidities such as diabetes, or chronic inflammatory conditions. Most conditions benefit from HBOT, but any tissue that has undergone radiation damage such as radiation proctitis, radiation enteritis, and non-healing wounds in previously radiated tissue beds. Other conditions that are also supported by research such as inflammatory bowel disease and complications, postoperative ileus, and abdominal infections such as diverticulitis, and radiation proctitis also respond well.
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- Decreases inflammation and swelling (including TNF-alpha, IL-1, IL-6)
- Bactericidal to anaerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria
- Promotes angiogenesis
- Up to 800% increase in stem cells
- Decreases fibrosis and general scarring
- Decreases reperfusion injury
- Enhanced connective tissue strength and flexibility
- Enhances fibroblast and collagen synthesis
- Accelerates bone growth
- Accelerates all stages of wound healing
- Promotes the proliferation of neural stem cells
- Enhances neuroplasticity formation
- Acute reversal tissue ischemia
- Heals radiation injury due to cancer treatments
- Improves Immune system function
- Reduces infection (promotes leukocyte oxidative killing)
- Increases plasma oxygen levels up to 1200% for enhanced delivery
- Improves tissue hypoxia
- Improves delivery of medications (including antibiotics)
