The benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy during reconstructive surgery has been confirmed both clinically, and through experimental data, but still widely underutilized by plastic surgeons. This review study details the benefits and role that hyperbaric oxygen plays within the discipline of plastic and reconstructive surgery. <view study> Read Less

Two male patients ages 57 and 64 years old were treated with a 1 week course of hyperbaric oxygen therapy at 1.5 ATA (60 minutes per session) Shortness of breath subsided immediately with both patients after the first hyperbaric session and resolved by the end of the 7 days. More notably, neither patient became critically ill and the lung CT scans showed remarkable improvement in lung pathology. The authors of this study concluded this report by suggesting that “hyperbaric oxygen therapy may promptly improve the progressive hypoxemia of patients with COVID-2019 pneumonia” <view study> Read Less

Depression is one of the more common consequences of a stroke, affecting as many as 1/3 of stroke victims. This condition, known as post stroke depression (PSD)is currently not (or inadequately) treated by many physicians and needs to be quickly identified and treated appropriately. Based on a “pool of analysis, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is effective and safe therapeutic approach for PSD” <view study> Read Less

The combination of metabolically supported chemotherapy, together with a ketogenic diet, hyperthermia and HBOT, appears to be promising in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer. <view study> Read Less

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy could “significantly affect the expression levels of IL-12p40, MIP-1β, PDGF-BB, and IL-1Ra, indicating that the effects of HBO therapy are associated with the attenuation of inflammatory responses”. <view study> Read Less