Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Wounds

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is the therapeutic use of oxygen at pressures greater than atmospheric, where the patient’s entire body is placed inside a chamber to achieve this systemic effect.

Phoebe Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center in Albany, Georgia, provides HBOT for patients with certain types of non-healing wounds.

Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

At Phoebe Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, we use HBOT to treat the following conditions:

Air or Gas Embolism
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complicated by Cyanide Poisoning
Clostridal Myositis and Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)
Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
Decompression Sickness
Enhancement of Healing in Selected Problem Wounds, especially diabetics
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
Osteomyelitis (Refractory)
Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)
Skin Grafts and Flaps (Compromised)

To learn more about wound care and hyperbaric therapy at Phoebe, please call
(229) 312-7600.

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