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Conditions
The approved conditions/indications, recognized by the Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)
and the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine (ACHM), and most times are covered by medical
insurance are:
Sources
The approved conditions/indications, recognized by the Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)
and the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine (ACHM), and most times are covered by medical
insurance are:
- Smoke inhalation
- Gas gangrene
- Crush injury
- Air or gas embolism
- Osteomyelitis (Refractory)
- Skin grafts and flaps
- Thermal burns
- Problem and non-healing wounds (including diabetic)
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Exceptional blood loss (Anemia)
- Decompression sickness (Bends)
- Intracranial abscesss/Actinolycosis
- Acute traumatic ischemias
- Compartment syndrome
- Delayed radiation and chemotherapy tissue damage and injury
- Dental surgery (pre- and post-surgery)
Sources
- UHMS Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Committee Report Revised 1999, ISBN 0-930406-14-1
- Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine 3rd Revised Edition 1999, K. K. Jain, MD. ISBN 0-88937-203-9
- Preferred Practice Protocols for Hyperbaric Medicine, R. Kelly Hill, American College of Hyperbaric
Medicine, ISBN 0-9662243-0-2 - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Richard A. Neubauer and Morton Walker, ISBN 0-89529-759-0