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Diabetes Wound Care with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Impaired wound healing is a major clinical problem in patients with diabetes and is the leading cause of lower extremity amputations. Current diabetic therapies have a limited success rate in addressing the microvascularity present in diabetics. Poor healing of diabetic wounds is characterized by impaired angiogenesis and vasculogenesis.

Effects of Hyperbari Oxygen Therapy Treatments for Diabetes Impaired Wounds.

Stimulates angiogenesis
Decreases infection
Increases microcirculation

Patients that receive Hyperbari Oxygen Therapy for wounds caused by diabetes have a significantly less chance of undergoing an amputation