Some of the common uses for HBOT that are often covered by insurance include:
- Arterial gas embolism (air bubbles in the blood vessels)
- Carbon monoxide poisoning (from breathing noxious fumes)
- Cyanide poisoning
- Decompression sickness (a common scuba diving condition, also called “the bends”)
- Specific types of non-healing wounds such as diabetic wounds
- Gas gangrene (fast-spreading gangrene in infected wounds that gives off a foul-smelling gas)
- Intracranial abscess (originating from an ear infection, sinus infection, or another primary source of infection)
- Tissue damage from radiation therapy
- Osteomyelitis (long-term inflammation of bone or bone marrow)
- Compromised skin grafts or flaps
- Severe anemia
- Brain abscess
- Burns
- Crushing injury
- Sudden deafness
- Sudden, painless vision loss