The first Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Unit in Gujarat offers a state of the art Multi-place chamber built as per international norms. The chamber is large enough to accommodate six seated patients or two lying down patients plus a trained nursing staff and provides 24 hours a day support for emergencies. The Chamber has an air lock safety provision allowing entry and exit of staff/patients without disturbing the treatment pressures in the main Chamber. The unit has multi-para patient monitoring facility along with trans-cutaneous oximetery monitoring and problem wound care facilities

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment where-in the patient breaths 100% oxygen while being inside a high pressure environment (2 -3 ATA) for a prescribed amount of time (60 – 90 mins).

It delivers increasing amounts of dissolved oxygen to the blood plasma (in addition to fully saturating the red blood cells hemoglobin). This helps the body to heal itself, by making oxygen available to body tissues and organs, which were not receiving an adequate blood supply because of illness or trauma.

The air we normally breathe contains about 21% oxygen ( at 1 ATA pressure), which is carried throughout our bodies by red blood cells in blood. During HBOT, the 100% oxygen we breathe, combined with higher atmospheric pressure (2-3 ATA), delivers up to 15-20 times the oxygen content to all body fluids, including plasma, cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, lymph, and intracellular fluids. This allows oxygen levels to increase even in areas with blocked or compromised blood supply as a result of injury or illness, as well as in areas of tissue damage.

Increasing tissue oxygen levels produces several important long term therapeutic benefits including enhanced growth of new blood vessels; increased ability of white blood cells to destroy bacteria and remove toxins; increased growth of fibroblasts (cells involved in wound healing); and enhanced metabolic activity of previously marginally functioning cells including brain neurons.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is given in a special treatment room “Hyperbaric chamber” which is pressurized with compressed air. At Clinically prescribed controlled pressure, patients breathe 100% oxygen through a mask, hood or endotrachial tube. 4-6 patients can be treated at the same time. A staff nurse is present at all the times with patients inside the chamber, while the treatment is monitored from a Control Panel outside the chamber.