Definition : Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) is a treatment, in which a patient breathes 100% oxygen intermittently while inside a treatment chamber at a pressure higher than sea level pressure ( > 1.4 ATA)
Why oxygen therapies?
- Effective medical treatment, covered by insurance (17 conditions)
- Allow for very unique clinics, not available in the GCC
What are the clinics built around HBOT?
- Diving clinic
- Reversal of aging clinic
- Wound care center
- Stroke clinic
- ICU/HBOT
- Sports injury clinic
- Infection disease
- Integrated Psychiatry clinic
Our chambers
- Integrakaredeals with several companies with the highest international certifications.
- Chambers can accomodate one patient (Monochamber) or several patients at a time ( Multichamber)
- Chamber is pressurized with 100% O2
- IV lines and ventilation ducts can penetrate through the hull. (none available in the GCC, very few in the USA)
- Highest quality & safety certifications
Conditions where HBOT is a primary adjunctive therapy- Currently not covered by insurance in the UAE
- Autism
- Cerebral Palsy
- Lyme Disease
- Migraine
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Near Drowning
- Sports Injuries
- Stroke
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Cancer
- Autoimmune/inflammatory diseases
- May be replacement for surgery in certain orthopedic conditions
- Esthetic medicine (plastic surgery and dermatology)
- Pre and post ANY surgery
Primary adjunctive therapy conditions
- Air or gas embolism
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Enhancement of healing in diabetically derived illness such as diabetic foot, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy
- Exceptional blood loss (anemia)
- Intracranial abscess
- Clostridal myositis and myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
- Crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic ischemias
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections (necrotizing fasciitis)
- Osteomyelitis (refractory)
- Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis)
- Skin grafts and flaps (compromised)
- Thermal burns
- Actinomycosis
- Cyanide poisoning
- Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis