Nature has proven that healing can not take place without appropriate oxygen levels in your pet’s body tissues. Breathing oxygen under normal atmospheric pressure is not enough to raise tissue oxygen levels to reverse this lack of oxygen because red blood cells cannot carry and release enough extra oxygen.
Clinically, adequate tissue perfusion and sufficient oxygen supply are two basic requirements for the body’s healing responses. Without these elements, tissues will soon enter a hypoxic state. Hypoxia impairs many healingprocesses including bacterial eradication, collagen synthesis, angiogenesis, and epithelialization. Hypoxia has also been shown to slow wound healing while favoring bacterial growth.
In order to overcome the oxygen hypoxia and raise tissue oxygen levels high enough for optimal healing to occur, the oxygen must be delivered under increased atmospheric pressure, process called - Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
What is the term "Hyperbaric" mean? Hyper - "more" and Baric - related to "pressure". Thus, Hyperbaric - More Pressure.
Definition: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment in which a patient breathes 100% oxygen inside an enclosed chamber while the pressure is controlled and increased to greater than atmospheric pressure resulting in increased oxygen delivery to all the body tissues.
In short, hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves oxygen as a medium of gas and an enclosed chamber as a tool to deliver oxygen at greater pressures. Under these conditions, lungs can gather more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure following the basic gas physics laws.
In normal circumstances, oxygen is transported throughout the body only by red blood cells. By way of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, more oxygen is dissolved not only through red blood cells but also into the blood plasma, blood cells, cerebral-spinal fluid and other bodily fluids.
In normal circumstances, oxygen is transported throughout the body only by red blood cells. By way of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, more oxygen is dissolved not only through red blood cells but also into the blood plasma, blood cells, cerebral-spinal fluid and other bodily fluids.
Physiological effects: Vasoconstriction and enhanced oxygen delivery, reduction of edema, phagocytosis activation and also an anti-inflammatory effect - enhanced leukocyte function, neovascularization - angiogenesis in hypoxic soft tissues, osteoneogenesis, stimulation of collagen production by fibroblasts, stem cell mobilization by eight times are known long-term effects.
A short note:
Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy has been used in human medicine is a long established since the beginning of the 20th century and a studied medical treatment program which enhances the body's natural healing process. The use of it in animals began to benefit in the last 30 years.
There has been more research on HBOT than on any drug or device ever approved by the FDA.
Proven effective in human medicine, indications in animals are largely adapted from human studies. However, it is worthy of noting that most published human studies in the modern days are based on animal studies. Vice a versa, proven experience has shown that this same technology can be applied successfully to many medical conditions in animals.
Veterinary medicine is advancing quickly, as human treatments are starting to be used in pets with good results. The success of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the veterinary medicine has led to the development of a specific governing body in early 2000, The Veterinary Hyperbaric Medicine Society (VHMS).
The use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an exciting adjunctive therapy has provided veterinarians with another option to significantly improve animal medical care, and has been used in the treatment of multiple conditions over the past decade.
Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (VHBOT) is being routinely used in veterinary medicine to treat swelling, trauma, non-healing wounds, infections, sepsis, pancreatitis, stroke & other serious ailments. Several Small Animal clinics world wide have performed over millions of procedures on various conditions and have benefited the pet owners enormously.
Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (VHBOT) is a proven medical technology in veterinary medicine , still largely an under utilized modality in many parts of the globe including India.
Veterinary Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (VHBOT) can be of great help to small animal veterinary patients by speeding up the healing process and may reduce or eliminate the need for more invasive procedures such as surgery, oftentimes resulting in a net savings of time and cost of treatment for pet owners.
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