'A great success rate' with oxygen therapy
Using oxygen therapy to help heal wounds is an effective way of treating frustrating injuries, it has been suggested.
Terri Quebedeaux, a member of staff at the Guadalupe Regional Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine Center, said the practice can be very beneficial to users, the Seguin Gazette-Enterprise reports.
"We have a great success rate in healing wounds with an average healing time of about 15 minutes," the specialist explained, before adding it is very rewarding to help save a limb in this manner rather than having to rely on more drastic measures.
Dr Duane Dietz, a board-certified physician in undersea and hyperbaric medicine at the facility, noted oxygen therapy can help cure numerous ills, including non-healing skin grafts, unresponsive bone infections and carbon monoxide poisoning.
The treatment is also on offer at the Tennessee Hyperbaric Center and medical director at the institution Dr Roy Schmidt sought to open up the complex after he and his family found it hard to gain access to the care for his ill brother.
Posted by James Worrall
29/09/2010 16:54:41
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