HyOx treats common workers’ compensation cases with hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the following:               

Thermal Burns: A type of burn resulting from making contact with heated objects, such as boiling water, steam, hot cooking oil, fire, and hot objects. Scalds are the most common type of thermal burn suffered by children, but for adults thermal burns are most commonly caused by fire.

Compromised Flaps/Grafts: Skin grafts and flaps may have trouble healing from swelling or poor blood flow making the mechanics of hyperbaric oxygen therapy an effective and necessary treatment to achieve good clinical outcomes.

Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections: Most commonly treated is necrotizing fasciitis, “necrotizing” signifies the death of most or all of the cells in an organ or tissue due to disease, injury or failure of the blood supply. A necrotizing infection causes patches of tissue to die as a result of bacteria invading the skin or the tissues under the skin.

Non-Healing Wounds (including complications from diabetes): In patients with diabetes, bacterial infection can destroy skin, tissue, and bone. Non-healing wounds that don’t show significant progress after 30 days of traditional treatments like wound care and antibiotics qualify for hyperbaric oxygen therapy intervention to promote healing and salvage limbs.

Crush Injuries: Trauma that occurs because of pressure from a heavy object onto a body part or from squeezing of a body part between two objects. These acute traumatic peripheral ischemias are a result of serious injuries that compromise circulation to an extremity involving the sudden blockage of the peripheral arterial blood supply. With the surrounding tissue deprived of needed oxygen threatening the loss of limb, function or life, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is needed to regain oxygenation and function.

Other complications resulting from traumatic peripheral ischemia:

• Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome: Systemic disease characterized by severe pain, swelling and changes in the skin.

• Compartment Syndrome: Pressure buildup from internal bleeding or swelling of tissues.

Decompression Illness / “The Bends:” Refers to injuries caused by a rapid decrease in the pressure that surrounds you, of either air or water. It occurs most commonly in scuba or deep-sea divers, although it also can occur during high-altitude or unpressurized air travel.

Post Concussive Syndrome: A complex disorder in which various symptoms — such as headaches and dizziness — last for weeks and sometimes months after the injury that caused the concussion.  

Workers’ Compensation coverage varies by employer, insurance carrier, and state Workers’ Compensation laws. Always check with your adjustor, authorized treating physician, and nurse case manager for more information about coverage and treatment.

Call HyOx at 678-303-3200 or email Elizabeth Smith, Director of Strategic Outreach at esmith@hyox.com with any questions.