Treatable Diagnoses and Conditions

The following is a list of diagnoses and conditions treated by hyperbarics that are typically covered by health insurance:

Conditions related to cancer treatments and radiation damage
Infections in tissue, muscle, bone or skin, and/or drug resistant infections
Sores and gangrene that will not heal or that are related to diabetes
Surgical sites with grafts or flaps
Bones and/or tissue that are difficult to heal
Acute severe problems from accidents (e.g. crushed leg, arm, fingers)
Rare conditions such as decompression sickness, anemia, burns, carbon monoxide poisoning, or emboli from air or gas
Swelling of the brain, cerebral edema

Acute carbon monoxide intoxication
Decompression illness
Gas embolism
Gas gangrene
Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia. HBO therapy is a valuable adjunctive treatment to be used in combination with accepted standard therapeutic measures when loss of function, limb, or life is threatened.
Crush injuries and suturing of severed limbs (limb reattachment). As with the previous conditions, HBO therapy would be an adjunctive treatment when loss of function, limb, or life is threatened.
Progressive necrotizing infections (necrotizing fasciitis)
Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
Treatment of compromised grafts and flaps
Chronic refractory osteomyelitis, unresponsive to conventional medical and surgical management
Osteoradionecrosis as an adjunct to conventional treatment
Soft tissue radionecrosis as an adjunct to conventional treatment
Cyanide poisoning
Actinomycosis, only as an adjunct to conventional therapy when the disease process is refractory to antibiotics and surgical treatment.