Crush Injuries and HBOT

04.05.2023
Medical Indications
HBOT Science: AHA Hyperbarics Solutions for Crush Injuries

Crush injuries are types of injury to body parts as result of trauma

Crush injuries range from minor contusions to limb threatening damage. Such injuries involve multiple tissues from skin and subcutaneous tissues, muscles and tendons, bones and joints. In most severe cases, crush injuries lead to known complications including osteomyelitis, non-union of fractures, failed flaps and can also lead to amputations when the situation can be critical.

Trauma plus tissue hypoxia are the common denominators of crush injuries. A severe physical injury entails a condition of acute traumatic ischemia or inadequate supply of blood to various organs. Crush injuries and compartment syndrome are traumatic ischemias associated with complex wounds resulting from traumatic injuries.

Ischemia is a restriction in tissue blood supply, which causes a shortage of oxygen needed for cellular metabolism (to keep tissue alive). Ischemia is generally caused by problems with blood vessels, with resultant damage to or dysfunction of tissue. This can lead to increased edema and vascular compromise thus affection the ability of the tissue to handle infections.

Crush injuries affect a portion of the body, such as the leg, while crush syndrome indicates that the injury is accompanied by a systemic problem, such as shock or failure with various organs.

 

HBOT for Crush Injuries: Clinical Review of Autism Treatments in AHA Hyperbarics’ Chambers (2016-2024)

AHA Hyperbarics conducted an extensive review of clinical treatments in their hyperbaric oxygen chambers, focusing on patients with crush injuries from 2016 to 2024. The review analyzed treatment outcomes in 782 patients, comprising 445 male and 337 female patients.

Proven Efficacy in Healing and Recovery

The results revealed a high level of efficacy for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in addressing crush injury symptoms, with 98.1% of the patients exhibiting significant improvements following treatment in the AHA Hyperbaric chambers. These improvements included faster wound healing, reduced inflammation, improved functional recovery, and reduced risk of long-term complications. These results provide a hopeful perspective for individuals seeking an effective, non-invasive option to enhance recovery from crush injuries.

Treatment Protocol

Treatments were standardized for all patients, with sessions conducted at a pressure of 2.0 ATA, recognized for therapeutic effectiveness in crush injury cases. Each patient received between 15 and 20 sessions, with each session lasting 60 minutes, administered at least 5 times per week. This consistent approach helped maximize recovery outcomes across the treatment period.

HBOT Science: AHA Hyperbarics Solutions for Crush Injuries

The damages related to crush injuries:

 

  • Bleeding
  • Bruising
  • Compartment syndrome (increased pressure in an arm or a leg that causes serious muscle, nerve, blood vessel, and tissue damage)
  • Fractures, lacerations
  • Nerve injury
  • Secondary infection
  • Smashed fingers
  • Wounds

HBOT can provide a better environment for healing and fighting infection

When used as an adjunct to orthopedic surgery and antibiotics, hyperbaric oxygen therapy shows promise as a method to decrease complications from severe crush injuries.

HBOT Science: AHA Hyperbarics Solutions for Crush Injuries

The action of HBOT in crush injuries and compartment syndromes is based on supplementation of oxygen availability.

HBOT supplements oxygen availability to hypoxic tissues during the early post-injury period when perfusion is most likely to be inadequate and also increases tissue oxygen tensions to sufficient levels for the system to function.

HBOT is known to reduce excess fluid in injured area, to increase the supply of oxygen (hyperoxygenation) into the plasma to the damaged, ischemic tissue, reduce swelling and help fight infection to promote healing.

HBOT induces a reduction in blood flow that allows capillaries to resorb extra fluid, resulting in decreased edema. Oxygen is required for all cellular metabolic functions. When oxygen tensions are improved, wound healing and angiogenesis responses are improved.

HBOT Science: AHA Hyperbarics Solutions for Crush Injuries

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has 4 amazing effects on injured body:

  • Increases oxygen tension leading to greater capillary oxygen diffusion distances.
  • Produces a vasoconstriction that reduces edema formation.
  • Has an indirect effect on leukocyte enhancement and increased wound healing.
  • Decreases neutrophil adhesion & activation in the ischemic-reperfused tissue.

Hyperbaric oxygen exposures at two atmospheres absolute (ATA) increase the blood oxygen content (the combination of hemoglobin and plasma carried oxygen) by 125 percent. The oxygen tensions in plasma as well as tissue fluids is increased 10-fold (1000 %).(9-11) Sufficient oxygen can be physically dissolved in plasma under HBO2 conditions to keep tissues alive without hemoglobin-borne oxygen. 
(Source: UHMS.org – Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome And Other Acute Traumatic Ischemias)

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AHA Hyperbaric Medical Systems is effectively being used for treating crush injuries and 6 other certified medical indications:

AHA Hyperbaric Medical System is certified according to the European Council Directive concerning medical devices (MDD) 93/42/EEC and produced on the basis of the quality management system for the production of medical products as determined by EN ISO 13485:2016.

Due to their functionality and safe use, AHA Hyperbaric Medical System is the only inflatable hyperbaric chamber in the world that can be used for 7 medical indications: crush injuries, diabetic foot ulcer, post-concussion syndrome, cerebrovascular insult, intestinal cystitis, scleral ischemia and autism (2-16 of age).

 

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