Hyperbaric Medicine--Oxygen Therapy
What is Hyperbaric Medicine ?
| Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy involves the intermittent inhalation of 100% oxygen
under pressures greater than one atmosphere. This treatment is carried out in a high pressure vessel called: hyperbaric chamber, recompression chamber or decompression chamber. Therapeutic benefit may result from the mechanical effects of increased pressure directly, or by the physiological effects of improved oxygenation on a variety of end organs. It is important to realize that toxic effects may also arise from these two mechanisms. At Monterrey Medical Center we have a multi-compartment, multi-place chamber which lends itself to great flexibility in the numbers and types of treatment that can be carried out simultaneously. It is a common practice that all patients are accompanied in the chamber by an attending nurse who is specifically trained for such work and has been qualified medically fit after examination by a specialist diving physician. These arrangements allow us to treat critically ill patients requiring the full resources of the Intensive Care Unit when indicated. A variety of conditions respond well to hyperbaric therapy for a number of different reasons. TREATMENT PROTOCOL Treatment consist of 90 min. at 34 to 42 feet, each day for 21 to 30 days depending on type of case being treated. COST OF TREATMENT Most treatment facilities in the United States charge between $950.00 to $1,2500.00 per treatment each day for 21 to 30 days. Plus physician charge of $250.00 to $420.00 a day. Plus cost of stay at hospital. The cost can be staggering. Cost at Monterrey Medical Center is $650.00 each treatment per day, plus hospital $85.00 to $150.00 a day and $175.00 physician charge per day. Same treatment but less expensive. Dr. Frank P. Truitt, M.D.,Ph.D., is an Emergency Room Physician with a Full Professorship in Diving Physiology. He has over 18 years experience in treating HBO patients, ranging form wound recovery, clostridial myonecrosis, osteoradionecrosis, chronic refractory osteomyelitis, thermal burns, Diabetic (esp. problem wounds), myonecroses, compromised flaps and grafts, macular oedema, soft tissue radionecrosis, brain injuries, xerostomia, and new research being done in HBO medicine. (MRI) Our New Third Generation MRI shows the way... |