For what is hyperbaric oxygen therapy used?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved hyperbaric oxygen therapy to help treat the following:

• Air or gas bubbles in your blood vessels (air or gas embolism).

• The bends (decompression sickness).

• Burns.

• Carbon monoxide poisoning.

• Gangrene caused by the bacteria Clostridium (gas gangrene).

• Hearing loss.

• Injuries that cut or break your skin (wounds).

• Loss of vision.

• Radiation injuries.

• Severe anemia.

• Severe bone and skin infections.

• Skin grafts.

• Trauma from force or pressure on a body part (crush injury).