Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is an adjunctive treatment in which the patient breathes 100% oxygen while enclosed in a pressurized chamber at two to three times greater than normal atmospheric pressure.

While breathing pure oxygen, the patient’s
blood plasma becomes saturated carrying
15-20 times the normal amount of oxygen to the body’s tissue.

This increase of oxygen to the tissue produces several benefits to the wound host:

• Promotes new blood vessels.
• Decreases swelling and inflammation.
• Deactivates bacterial toxins.
• Increases the body’s ability to fight infection.
• Improves the rate of healing.

HBOT is used to treat a wide range of conditions. Currently, these are recognized indications for HBOT:

• Diabetic wounds
• Radiation tissue damage
• Osteomyelitis
• Skin grafts and flaps
• Necrotizing soft tissue infections
• Actinomycosis
• Crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemias
• Clostridial myonecrosis
• Air or gas embolism
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Decompression sickness
• Thermal burns*
• Severe anemia
• Intracranial abscess*

*not recognized by Medicare

HBOT is delivered at Piedmont Hospital via mono-place chambers, which are monitored from the outside by certified technicians using advanced controls and computer systems and with two-way intercom systems for communicating with patients inside the chambers. There is always a physician or nurse practitioner on premises.

Piedmont Hospital will be administering HBOT on an outpatient basis.

Location

1968 Peachtree Road, N.W.
35 Building • Lobby Level
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

To refer a patient to Piedmont Hospital’s Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, call 404-605-3580.