Hyperbaric oxygen and radiotherapy.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: oxygen and bubbles.

Recompression using oxygen is the accepted treatment for decompression injury. As early as 1877 Paul Bert stated that recompression using oxygen is the optimal treatment for decompression problems (2). He also pointed out that this treatment was very effective for getting rid of the gas from the vascular system but much less effective against paralysis and the serious types of decompression sic...

Hyperbaric oxygen and malignancies: a potential role in radiotherapy, chemotherapy, tumor surgery and phototherapy.

Over the past 40 years, hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy has been recommended and used in a wide variety of medical conditions. In the 1950s, HBO2 was first used as a treatment, in addition to radiation, for head and neck cancers and cervical cancer. Many studies have been conducted to investigate possible therapeutic effects HBO2 as part of cancer management. Evidences showed that HBO2 improve...

Hyperbaric oxygen and wound healing.

Problem wounds, which fail to respond to traditional medical and surgical therapy, can be challenging to the plastic surgeon. Surgical, outpatient, and inpatient wound care costs can be exorbitant. Indirect costs, such as those related to patient productivity, disability, and premature death, can also be significant. The underlying problem in failure of a wound to heal is usually hypoxia and in...

Hyperbaric oxygen pretreatment and preconditioning.

Exposure to hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) before a crucial event, with the plan to create a preventing therapeutic situation, has been defined "preconditioning" and is emerging as a useful adjunct both in diving medicine as well before ischemic or inflammatory events. Oxygen pre-breathing before diving has been extensively documented in recreational, technical, commercial and military diving for tis...

Hyperbaric Oxygen for Stroke