We're proud to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy for burn and wound treatment at both Community Regional Medical Center and the John C. Harris Wound Healing Center at Clovis Community Medical Center.
What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a treatment that supplies your body with crucial oxygen needed to help heal skin tissue and prevent infection.
Patients with hard-to-heal wounds are placed in a special chamber where they breathe in 100% oxygen. The pressure inside the chamber is slowly increased to two to three times normal atmospheric pressure — allowing more oxygen than the amount you would receive in normal air pressure.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has many benefits, including:
Greatly increasing oxygen concentration in all body tissues
Stimulating the growth of new blood vessels in areas of reduced circulation
Enhancing white blood cells’ efficiency in killing bacteria and controlling infections
Preserving tissues where circulation is suddenly reduced
Reducing edema (swelling)
Reversing damage to tissues exposed to radiation therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Indications
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be recommended if you have the following indications:
Central retinal artery occlusion, or the sudden blockage of the artery that brings blood to your retina
Enhancement of healing in selected problem wounds
Refractory osteomyelitis, or swelling of bone tissue due to infection