VIDEOS - Small Animal Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

1) Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy: Miracle Machine at Holistic Veterinary Care Oakland California. 

2) Hyperbaric Veterinary Medicine: Breathing New Life Into Pets:

3) Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy:  The largest users of the veterinary HBOT Bluegrass Veterinary Specialists in Lexington, USA. 

4) Veterinary Hyperbaric Therapy  at C-VETS (Charlotte Veterinary Emergency & Trauma Services) - Basics & Indications:

5) Veterinary HBOT Demo &  Dr. Greene demonstrates it's benefits on a bird whose wound would not heal - Homestead Animal Hospital.

6) Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: For Birds & other exotic species too: Bald eagle.

7) Dr. Anne Chauvet, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology) Explains - Benefit of Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

8) Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy:  For the Veterinary Internist: ( Veterinarians need not reinvent the wheel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWxwODJO_Us&t=779s

9) Veterinary Hyperbaric oxygen therapy - Dr. Diane Levitan -  Presentation - ACVIM (American college of Veterinary Internal Medicine), Seattle - Conference – 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsJySUjGD0

More information:

“Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be of great help to veterinary patients by speeding up the healing process and may reduce or eliminate the need for more invasive procedures such as surgery, often times resulting in a net savings of time and cost of treatment for pet owners.”

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has been used in human medicine for years in the treatment of acute and chronic diseases that suffer from a lack of oxygen. 

Safely and painlessly, oxygen delivered to the patient in the hyperbaric chamber is inhaled and absorbed by the body at pressure many times greater than when breathing oxygen at normal sea level pressure.

Under hyperbaric pressure, healing oxygen is dissolved in the blood plasma, cerebrospinal and lymph fluids, enabling oxygen to reach damaged tissue at least 3 to 4 times farther than normally diffused by red blood cells. This is especially important in swollen and inflamed tissues where small blood vessels have been spread apart and oxygen from red blood cells is unable to diffuse out far enough to supply the needs of damaged cells.

The application for HBOT in veterinary medicine are much the same as in human medicine: increased oxygen delivery to cells in the body. The result of the increased delivery of oxygen to damaged tissues is the relief of inflammation, pressure and edema caused by injury or infection. In addition, the increased levels of oxygen promotes angiogenesis (new blood vessel formation), stimulates wound healing and can help the body fight infection.

Below is a much more detailed list of the medical conditions that benefit from HBOT:

Neurology
•    Head trauma swelling reduction: immediate
•    Brain tumor swelling reduction
•    Intervertebral disc disease – reduce acute inflammation, restore deep pain, use for surgical          partial improvement or failures.
•    Intracranial abscessation/granuloma
•    Cerebral edema
•    Acute nerve injury/crush or trauma
•    Cutaneous, decubitus and stasis ulcers
•    Stroke victims
•    Tetanus
•    Degenerative myelopathies

Emergency medicine
•    Acute carbon monoxide intoxication
•    Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
•    Crush injuries
•    Laryngeal paralysis crisis
•    Exceptional blood loss crisis
•    Severe soft tissue infections
•    Thermal burns
•    Smoke inhalation
•    Cardiogenic shock
•    Aerobic or anaerobic septicemia
•    Myocardial infarction
•    Pulmonary emphysema
•    Pancreatitis
•    Pyothorax
•    Near drowning
•    Snake bites

Internal medicine
•    Gangrene
•    Progressive necrotizing infections
•    Osteomyelitis
•    Clostridial myositis
•    Radiation injury or post radiation therapy
•    Cognitive performance and age related cognitive dysfunction
•    Hepatic necrosis
•    Severe rhinitis/sinusitis

Surgery
•    Skin grafts and flaps
•    All non-healing wounds
•    Wound healing enhancement
•    Post-operative swelling
•    Arthritic disease
•    Swelling associated with fractures/trauma