Hyperbaric oxygen Therapy in India is fast gaining popularity
as an adjunct treatment for many medical indications. Aastha Intensive Care Centre, Dhule, Maharashtra
was started 9 years ago and it has a
full fledged ICU with latest technologies
managed by 13 doctors from different
fields of medicine. Aastha Intensive Care center, Dhule has a reputation for rendering excellent
critical care and for bringing the latest technologies in caring for the
critically ill, and in enhancing that, it has recently acquired a Monoplace
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Chamber from Bird
medical Devices, Mumbai, India.
This is the first critical care center to acquire a Hyperbaric oxygen Therapy Chamber in the
region of Khandesh in North Maharashtra.
Dr.Ninad Patil MD, Physician & Intensivist explains that Hyperbaric
oxygen Therapy ( HBOT) is a treatment modality where the patient breathes 100 %
oxygen while at increased pressure inside a chamber. At pressures greater than
normal atmospheric pressure, the body is able to absorb more oxygen into blood
cell, blood plasma, cerebral spinal and other body fluids and thus by
biologically repairing and regenerating human tissue.
Hyperbaric oxygen Therapy is used for UHMS approved
indications that includes 1) Air gas embolism 2) Carbon monoxide poisoning 3) Gas
gangrene 4) Crush injury, Compartment syndrome and other Acute Traumatic
Ischemias 5) Decompression sickness 6)Arterial Insufficiencies including
central retinal artery occlusion 7) Severe Anemia 8) Intracranial Abscess 9)
Necrotising soft Tissue infections 10) Osteomyelitis –Refractory 11) Delayed
Radiation injury 12) Compromised grafts and flaps 13) Acute thermal burn Injury
14)Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing loss. There are more than 80
“off label indications” for which
hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used world wide and there are thousands of
clinical papers published by renowned medical practitioners about its
effectiveness.
Aastha Intensive Care Center, Dhule installed the Hyperbaric
oxygen therapy chamber to render more effective clinical solutions and manage
patients with illness for whom no
further options were available. Now with the HBOT chamber, we are to a great extent successful in
treating patients with severe head injuries, diffused
axonal injuries, cerebral edema, strokes, non healing wounds, ulcers,
osteomyelitis, crush injuries, besides many other indications.
Dr,Nikhil Shah (Neuro Surgeon) says, “We
are very happy to see dramatic results
in some of our patients by delivering oxygen
through the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy chamber,
who otherwise may have needed surgical intervention”. Also, he adds that
the recovery is faster and HBOT reduces the financial burden on the patient.
For further information contact:
Dr. Gautam Shah M.S. (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Consultant & Head of Department of Hyperbaric
Medicine
Aastha Intensive Care Center, Dhule,
Maharashtra.
Cell: +919881278698
Email: gautamshah@doctor.com
