Table 3.
Indications for hyperbaric oxygen therapy | |
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Air or gas embolisms | |
Carbon monoxide poisoning | |
Clostridial myositis and myonecrosis | |
Crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemia | |
Decompression sickness | |
Arterial insufficiencies (central retinal artery occlusion, enhancement of healing in selected problem wounds) | |
Severe anemia | |
Intracranial abscess | |
Necrotizing soft tissue infections | |
Refractory osteomyelitis | |
Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis) | |
Acute thermal burn injury | |
Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss |