Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy Unit

The unit is considered as one of the centers of excellence in ELARABY Hospital, where hyperbaric oxygen therapy is one of the methods that receives great international attention and achieves medical results in several pathological cases.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves that the patient inhales 100% pure oxygen, then the atmospheric pressure is increased in the room where the patient is located.

According to the pathological case, the pressure is doubled or reaches three times the normal atmospheric pressure, as the oxygen turns from the gaseous state to the liquid state.

Then the oxygen is transferred to the cells, tissues and organs through various body fluids and not only through red blood cells, which leads to improving the perfusion for the affected and damaged parts.

The US Food and Drug Administration and the International Hyperbaric Society have approved the hyperbaric oxygen as an effective and essential treatment for the following diseases:

• Embolism (clogging) with gas or air bubbles.

• Carbon monoxide poisoning.

• Carbon monoxide poisoning accompanied by cyanide poisoning.

• Decompression sickness, which often occurs in divers or workers in deep places.

• Wounds, pathological injuries and ulcers that are difficult to heal.

• Inflammation of muscles and tissues by gastric bacilli and muscular necrosis - gas gangrene.

• Acute and severe anemia.

• Infections and soft tissue erosion.

• Chronic osteoarthritis that does not respond to normal treatments and bone marrow.

• Wounds and late side effects resulted from radiotherapy (damage to bones and soft tissues).

• Skin grafting.

• Acute thermal burns.

• Diabetic foot ulcers.

• Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss.

Additionally, there are many other medical and surgical cases in which hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be used as a complementary and adjuvant therapy, that comprise:

Autism spectrum diseases, cerebral palsy resulted from lack of oxygen at birth especially stiff paralysis, facial nerve paralysis, some chronic infections, some sports injuries, migraine headaches, partial drowning and arthritis.