Veterinary HBOT - Indications in small animals:

Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (VHBOT) is a revolutionary medical technology, useful for the treatment of acute injuries as well as for the enhancement of healing chronic disorders in both small and large veterinary patients. Proven effective in human medicine, HBOT is used as an adjunct therapy to other medications and procedures. Clinical experience has shown that this same technology can be applied successfully to many medical conditions of  animals.

Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (VHBOT) is an important adjunct tool in veterinary medicine. HBOT provides endless possibilities, whether treating the canine athlete, the family pet or an exotic animal species.

HBOT treatment benefit the post-operative veterinary patient greatly. Immediate results include the reduction of tissue swelling and inflammation – and the decrease in pain associated with these processes. 

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be of great help to veterinary patients by speeding up the healing process and may reduce or eliminate the need for more invasive procedures such as surgery, oftentimes resulting in a net savings of time and cost of treatment for pet owners.

The following is a list of some conditions in veterinary medicine currently being treated with HBOT often in addition to conventional therapies but not limited to:

Wound healing:large wounds that would take months to heal can heal much more rapidly and cleanly – saving money and lives

Abscesses: Intracranial and abdominal - Oxygen and antibiotic penetration into areas otherwise poorly penetrable.

Fractures:Post fracture pain, swelling and infection are helped as well as fibroblast stimulation and healing.

Thermal Burns: Healing is improved, infection diminished, increased survival rates overall for burn victims is proven.

Skin grafts and flaps:Flaps and grafts heal better due to increased vascularity, increased fibroblast growth factors, diminished infection and decreased inflammation. Neovascularization and decreased inflammation are tremendous help in healing. 

Spider bites:Initial swelling and necrosis does not occur or reverses rapidly with HBOT intervention.

Osteomyelitis:Proven improved fibroblast function, increased and targeted activity of antibiotic levels in bone for faster healing.

Lyme Disease: Infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Borrelia. Anaerobic bacteria can not survive in an oxygen rich environment, hence effective.

Poisonings (carbon monoxide, cyanide etc.):Oxygen quickly replaces CO and other noxious gasses. A common use in human ER’s.

Aortic embolization in both cats and dogs:Pure oxygen delivery and decreased reperfusion injury

Hepatic, renal and bowel inflammation:Post-operative inflammation of bowel, post-bloat or post-obstruction occurs and diminishes chances of sepsis and decreases effusion. Decreases repercussion injury. 

Pain management:Swelling decreases, oxygenation improves, enhances function of some pain medications.

Severe sinusitis or septic rhinitis:antibiotic delivery improves, inflammation goes down, pain is reduced

Post intervertebral disc herniation:Especially with “no deep pain” sensation– patients not deemed surgical candidates or patients who cannot afford surgery or did not respond well to surgery are helped tremendously. Oxygen is diffused into the plasma reaching ischemic areas reducing edema, inflammation and pain. 

Pancreatitis:Reduces inflammation particularly when associated with severe edema and hemorrhage – reduction in pain, swelling of pancreas and improved healing.

Abdominal sepsis:Particularly when associated with mixed bacterial infection: decreased inflammation, improved penetration of antibiotics to all areas of bowel and within peritoneal fluid, improved and faster healing.

Spinal cord injuries: The effect of HBO therapy on these pathways propose that the neuroprotection afforded by HBO therapy involves the following broad mechanisms: Decreasing apoptosis; Reducing oxidative stress; Diminishing inflammation; Promoting angiogenesis; Reducing spinal cord edema; Increasing autophagy. 

Traumatic Brain / Head injury: Dramatically increases the oxygen carried in the blood plasma, making oxygen available to heal damaged capillary walls, reduces swelling, and aids in new blood vessel formation. Blood flow can be restored to the dormant tissue and these cells then have the potential to function again.

Brain and spinal cord edema and injury or compression and Degenerative myelopathy: Marked edema reduction returns patients to consciousness and can reverse damage to brain and cord quickly. These are some of the most dramatic results. 

Granulomatous Meningoencephalitis (GME) symptoms reverse due to decreased inflammation without concurrent medications.

Pyothorax: Particularly when associated with mixed bacterial infection – same as peritonitis

Post traumatic or ischemic shock: or any acute hypoxic episodes, severe sinusitis or septic rhinitis – antibiotic delivery improves, inflammation goes down, pain is reduced.

Peritonitis: Reduced inflammation and dramatic reduction in infection.

Sepsis: Cuts down on bacterial infection and reduction in toxins.

Cardiac disease:Where ischemia is present, post traumatic and reperfusion myocardial injury.

Increase in the body’s inherent stem cell production: Many applications in the present and for the future!

Broad spectrum of conditions in which HBOT has shown excellent success rate in small animals:

• Severe skin and tissue damage 

• Fracture healing

• Major systemic or local infections

• Intervertebral disc herniation

• Inflammatory conditions such as pancreatitis

• Nerve damage

• Post-surgical swelling and recovery

• Acute ischemic conditions

• Infectious conditions such as severe wound infection

• Some aspects of neurological degeneration

• Problem wound such as burns, ulcers, gangrene and necrosis

• Stimulating new bone cell activity

• Brain/nerve damage

• Arthritis

Veterinary Hyperbaric oxygen therapy reduces swelling and inflammation, eases pressure and edema caused by head or spinal cord injuries, stimulates new blood vessel formation in healing tissues, improves control of infection, and promotes wound healing. 

Reduces length of healing time, the need for more invasive procedures, and hospital stay, hence cost effective.

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