Large Animal Clinical Sciences
HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY
HBOT
HBOT is a procedure that delivers increased amounts of oxygen to diseased or injured tissues
- In diseased or injured tissue the blood supply is often compromised and therefore the amount of oxygen delivered is reduced, inhibiting healing.
- HBOT delivers oxygen to a patient under pressure. This procedure concentrates the oxygen available in the air breathed in by the horse, which allows more oxygen to be dissolved in the blood and delivered to diseased tissues.
USES
HBOT is an adjunct therapy that compliments traditional treatments and care. In the horse it can be used in both acute and chronic conditions:
- Trauma
- Leg wounds
- Central nervous system damage
- Surgical trauma (incisions)
- Large, poor healing wounds
- Bone infections
- Internal abscesses
- Sinus infections
- Systemic infections
- Loss of Blood supply & necrosis
- Inflammatory injuries to tendons & ligaments
TREATMENT
- After the patient is sedated, it is placed in the sealed HBOT chamber
- Oxygen is release into the chamber until the surrounding pressure is two to three times the pressure experienced at sea level (equivalent to being 33 to 66 feet underwater)
- A treatment lasts approximately one hour and can be repeated daily.
HBOT is provided as part of the equine sports medicine and rehabilitation program at the UT College of Veterinary medicine in partnership with Equine Oxygen Therapies Acquisition LP.Veterinary Hyperbaric Medical Society
Contact:Dr. Dennis Geiser
The University of Tennessee
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
C203B Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Knoxville , TN 37996
Tel: (865) 974-5703
Fax: (865) 974-5773Dr. Henry Steve Adair
The University of Tennessee
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
C203B Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Knoxville , TN 37996
Tel: (865) 974-5701
Fax: (865) 974-5773