Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) 1-31-12 Jessica Green OTAS

What is TBI? A TBI is a external insult to the brain that can result in many types of physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and vocational changes or disabilities.

What is HBOT? HBOT is a transparent air tight chamber that supplies the Pt. with 100% pure oxygen and increased atmospheric pressure for about 90 minutes. Atmospheric pressure can be increased to three time the normal atmospheric pressure but is most often set to twice the atmospheric pressure. Normal atmospheric pressure usually exerts 14.7 pounds per square inch of pressure at sea level.

How HBOT Works… HBOT provides oxygen to the areas of the body with poor blood flow to facilitate regrowth and healing. More commonly used in open wounds. Increased pressure combined with the increase in oxygen content dissolves oxygen into the blood and all other body tissues and fluid at up to 20 times the normal concentration—high enough to sustain life with no blood at all and even with the heart stopped.

The risks for HBOT are… Ear Pain Rupture of the Eardrum Sinus Discomfort Bloody Nose Seizure – In rare cases.

Other conditions HBOT treats are… Burns Severed Limbs Stroke Autism Cerebral Edema Cerebral Palsy Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Vegetative Coma Multiple Sclerosis Cellulitis Bone Grafting Peripheral Vascular Ulcer Gangrene Fibromyalgia Diabetic Retinopathy Parkinson’s Syndrome Most are considered experimental and controversial in the medical profession including TBI.

Costs… Can cost, approximately, $8,000 to $74,000 to purchase yourself. Can cost between $150 at a clinic to over a thousand dollars at a large medical hospital for one treatment.

Where can you find a HBOT in Utah? LDS Hospital University of Utah IHC

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