UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
BOZYAKA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL, İZMİR
HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY CENTER
Definition of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
The Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is an intervention in which an individual breathes near 100% oxygen intermittently with mask while inside a hyperbaric chamber that is pressurized to greater than sea level pressure (1 atmosphere absolute-ATA).
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy began to be used in 1980’s in our country and became prevalent in the last 20 years. Due to the expansion of the HBOT indications, it has become necessary to build modern hyperbaric centers.
The only hyperbaric chamber operating in the public sector in İzmir, is located in the Bozyaka Education and Research Hospital. In this multiplace hyperbaric chamber can be treated twelve patients at the same time. Our HBOT center is in the advanced hospital that is important for safety and high quality healthcare.
HBOT unit of our hospital has the latest technology and safety systems. Physicians supervising HBOT should be specialist in Undersea and Hyperbarıc Medicine. HBOT center team members are trainedand practised in hyperbaric fields.
Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
HBOT has been used as a therapeutic option for various diseases such as decompression sickness, sudden hearing loss, central retinal artery occlusion (cause of sudden vision loss) carbonmonoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, air or gas embolism, avascular necrosis (death of bone tissue), acute traumatic ischemia, necrotizing soft tissue infection, acute thermal burn injuriy, osteomyelitis (infection of the bone), intracranial abscess, compromised grafts and flaps, diabetic foot ulcers and delayed radiation injuries.
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