What is a hyperbaric chamber?

hyperbaric chamber is a submarine-like structure built of durable materials to stress. Pressure in the patient breathing oxygen or other mixture of breathing gas pressure higher atmospheric pressure. As a result, the level of oxygen in the tissues and blood of a patient.

How does oxygen therapy affect the body?

Raising the level of oxygen in the body has a vital impact on the body and allows you to:

• Encouraging the creation of new blood vessels.
• Accelerate wound healing and healing difficulties with hypoxia (low oxygen).
• Inducing the formation of new bone tissue.
• Extinction of anaerobic infections.
• Reduce swelling and edema.
• Reduce damage to various toxins.

Why use a hyperbaric chamber?

Oxygen is a vital element in healing wounds and lack of proper oxygen supply may impair the body’s ability to heal wounds. The main objective used in the press, is to raise the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues via the respiratory system. To do this, raise the oxygen molecules as are all striving unit.

During treatment in a hyperbaric chamber, raises the amount of oxygen dissolved in the blood of 100 mm Hg to 1100 mm Hg or even more in some cases.

When the amount of oxygen molecules in the air breathed indicates more oxygen into the lungs, is absorbed into the bloodstream and from there comes the various tissues in the body and helps to rebuild them.

 Which problems can be treated with a hyperbaric chamber?

Treatment in a hyperbaric chamber fits into a series of chronic and urgent problems:

• wound healing problems due to diabetes or vascular insufficiency.
• Late radiation damage soft tissue and bone, as a result of radiation process carried out body.
• Combination therapy with restorative surgery after radiation therapy.
• bone infection that does not respond to treatment.
• sufficient decompression sickness and air embolisms.

Increase the amount of oxygen in the blood contributes to the treatment of a variety of other such smoke inhalation (co).

 

Vision loss as a result of acute occlusion of the artery retina, crushing injuries, skin grafts distress resistant infections in bone, muscle necrosis and widespread infections of soft tissue.

Treatment efficacy:

Studies on Approximately 10,000 patients world-wide, indicate that the percentage of success in wound healing therapy in a hyperbaric chamber is about 80%!

 What does the treatment involved:

The average treatment time hyperbaric chamber 30 is spread over two sessions of two hours (depending on the severity of the problem).

At the beginning of treatment, the patient was examined by a doctor and a clinic, in order to assess the state of the wound and the various risk factors. Part of the examination the patient is inserted into the press, accompanied by a nurse, to monitor the oxygen levels and the effect of wound care about.

The treatment itself is spacious cabin pressure sophisticated, during  the treatment allowing reading, writing, listening to music or rest.

Institute for Hyperbaric Medicine (Cell Press)

Institute for Hyperbaric Medicine (Cell Press) Medical Center “Assaf Harofeh” was established in 1997 and is the largest in Europe and the Middle East. Institute hyperbaric chamber is divided into three cells and can accommodate up to 19 people simultaneously.

Pressure chamber is the only center of the country, and provides solutions to approximately 80 patients every day, from all over the country.

The medical team, led by Dr. Shai Efrati, including five doctors, ten brothers and sisters and three technicians, who specialize in the treatment of wound healing problems.