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Hyperbaric Medicine
Essentia Health’s certified hyperbaric medicine team is committed to providing personalized healthcare for your needs. Our providers are specially trained in undersea and hyperbaric medicine.
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Overview
Hyperbaric medicine focuses on the following areas:
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Gangrene
- Stubborn wounds
- Infections in which tissues are starving for oxygen
This team provides both inpatient and outpatient care, as well as expertise in:
- Non-healing diabetic foot (and other selected complex non-healing wounds)
- Radiation injuries to tissue
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Crush injuries to extremities
- Skin graft or flap at risk of tissue death
- Vision and hearing loss
- Acute traumatic injuries where blood flow is restricted, such as Frostbite
- Gas or air bubbles in blood vessels
- Infection of the skin and/or bone
- Decompression sickness
- Anemia (severe anemia when blood transfusion cannot be used)
Treatment Plans
The hyperbaric medicine team uses the following treatment plans for patients, depending on diagnosis:
Micro vascular fluorescence microangiography - real-time blood flow imaging to track progression of non-healing wounds, grafts, or flaps.
Transcutaneous oximetry – simple, reliable, non-invasive diagnostic method of measuring oxygen and blood flow around wounds on the feet or legs.
Treatment plans typically go from 1 to 40 treatment sessions based on the person and their needs. Each session involves a 90 to 120-minute dive into the hyperbaric chamber. To make sure treatment is working, and ultrasound of your blood flow may be done throughout the treatment.
Current Clinical Research Studies
Talk to your doctor to see if you may be eligible to participate in a research study through the Essentia Institute of Rural Health. By participating in a clinical study, you may have access to treatments, medications and medical devices that are not widely available.