Only one hospital in the state of Nebraska offers patients suffering from radiation
injury, diabetic wounds and other various disorders the opportunity to receive this
advanced treatment. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO) involves the use of oxygen at
greater-than- normal atmospheric pressures to treat a variety of disorders.
During hyperbaric oxygen therapy, patients are entirely enclosed within a clear
acrylic chamber that is pressurized up to three times normal atmospheric pressure.
One hundred percent oxygen is delivered within this pressurized environment which
increases the oxygen concentration in the blood and ultimately in the body tissues.
This combination of high pressure and oxygen increases the amount of oxygen available
to your body and promotes wound healing.
The staff at The Nebraska Medical Center’s Hyperbaric Medicine Center are specially
trained to administer these therapies to patients with a variety of disorders including:
- Late Radiation Tissue Injury - bone or soft tissue complications
- Acute carbon monoxide poisoning
- Compromised skin grafts and skin flaps
- Problem wounds – such as diabetic foot ulcers
- Cerebral arterial gas embolism - decompression and iatrogenically induced
- Clostridial myonecrosis - gas gangrene
