Health First also offers state-of-the-art Hyperbaric services featuring an eight-person, multi-place chamber at our Palm Bay facility. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been demonstrated to assist in healing conditions including non-healing diabetic wounds, soft-tissue or bone infections and radiation tissue damage. HBOT may also be used for the primary treatment of diseases such as decompression sickness in SCUBA divers, arterial gas embolism and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Health First Wound Care & Hyperbarics treats patients who may be diagnosed with one of the following medical diagnoses, which are directly related to compromised wound healing:
Osteomyelitis (refractory)
Radiation tissue damage
Crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute taumatic ischemias
Thermal burns
Skin grafts and flaps (compromised)
Enhancement of healing in select problem wounds
Intracranial abscess
Diabetic wounds of the lower extremities
Osteoradionecrosis of the jaw
Venous ulcers
Arterial ulcers
Edema
Diabetic ulcers