hyperbaric oxygen therapy

medicine

Also known as: HBOT

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment that involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized environment, typically within a hyperbaric chamber. This therapy is used to treat conditions such as decompression sickness, carbon monoxide poisoning, and certain types of infections and wounds that are slow to heal. The increased pressure allows more oxygen to dissolve into the blood, which can help reduce the size of gas bubbles in tissues, speed up the removal of toxins, and promote healing. While HBOT has proven benefits for specific conditions, its use for other ailments is considered controversial due to potential risks, such as the generation of DNA-damaging free radicals.12

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…form of therapy, known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), employs a pressurized oxygen chamber (hyperbaric chamber) into which pure oxygen is delivered via an air compressor. The high-pressure atmosphere has been shown to reduce air bubbles in the blood of persons affected by conditions such as air embolism (artery or…
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