Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: BHU Trauma Centre introduces Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for enhanced healthcare treatment | Varanasi News
Varanasi: The Trauma Centre of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has introduced Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to enhance treatment for trauma and wound care .
It is the only centre in northern India, providing HBOT. It was commissioned through CSR activity on May 6 this year. Since then, this machine is being used for wound management, burn care, Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and many other medical conditions.BHU spokesperson Rajesh Singh said that till July, more than 300 sessions were held benefitting the needy patients of chronic non-healing wounds, large traumatic wounds, osteoradionecrosis, neuropathic pain, fractures. The patients from Varanasi and its nearby districts and also from far off places like Lucknow and Kolkata have benefited from HBO Therapy at the trauma centre.
According to the trauma centre functionaries, the Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy serves as a life and limb saving measure and somehow a game changer machine for the needy patients. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized environment. Conditions treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy includes, serious infections, air embolism, wounds that may not heal because of diabetes or radiation injury. Human body’s tissues need an adequate supply of oxygen to function. When a tissue is injured, it requires even more oxygen to survive. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases the amount of oxygen the blood can carry. With repeated treatments/sessions, the temporary extra high oxygen levels encourage normal tissue oxygen levels, even after the therapy is completed.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat several medical conditions, including non healing wounds such as diabetic foot ulcer, severe anemia, brain abscess, burns, carbon monoxide poisoning, crushing injury, sudden deafness, decompression sickness, gangrene, infection of skin or bone that causes tissue death, skin graft or skin flap at risk of tissue death.
In a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, the air pressure is increased two to three times higher than normal air pressure. Under these conditions, one’s lungs can gather much more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure. This extra oxygen helps fight bacteria. It also triggers the release of substances called growth factors and stem cells, which promote healing.
Also, many studies have indicated that HBOT may induce significant senolytic effects including significantly increasing telomere length and clearance of senescent cells, thereby aiding the aging populations.
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