Toxic: • Carbon monoxide poisoning • Severe cyanide poisoning Infectious: • Clostridial myonecrosis (gas gangrene) • Necrotizing soft tissue infections • Refractory osteomyelitis • Intracranial abscess Trauma and environmental injury: • Acute traumatic ischemia, including crush injury and the compartment syndrome • Severe thermal burns • Decompression sickness • Air or gas embolism • Severe blood loss anemia Radiation injury: • Radiation-induced osteonecrosis • Radiation-induced skin ulcerations Skin ulcerations and wounds: • Problematic pressure, ischemic or diabetic skin ulcers • Skin flaps or skin grafts with marginal circulation Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been used experimentally or in extremis for other conditions. |
References:Jain KK. Chapter 8: Indications, contraindications, and complications of HBO therapy. pages 73-78 (Table 8.1, page 74). IN: Jain KK (editor). Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine. 4th Edition. Hogrefe & Huber. 2004