Research and evidence
We treat the conditions where the evidence holds up and Medicare agrees. Here is that evidence, in plain words or clinical detail, with a link to the source for each one.
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Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
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Community Health Network
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Dr. Gregory Weir, Vascular and Hyperbaric Medicine
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WMAR-2 News, Baltimore
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Study library
Chandrasekhar SS, Tsai Do BS, Schwartz SR, et al. (AAO-HNS). Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, 2019.
The ear, nose and throat specialty guideline lists oxygen sessions plus steroids as an option within the first two weeks of sudden hearing loss, and as a rescue option up to one month.
Find on PubMed →Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (Moon RE, ed.). UHMS, 2019.
The professional society's reference lists every condition where the evidence supports oxygen under pressure, including chronic bone infection that has not cleared with surgery and antibiotics.
Find on PubMed →Bennett MH, Feldmeier J, Hampson NB, et al.. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016.
For tissue damaged by radiation in the head, neck and bowel, oxygen sessions improved healing in the randomized trials the review could find.
Find on PubMed →Kranke P, Bennett MH, et al.. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015.
Across the randomized trials, people with diabetic foot ulcers who added oxygen sessions were more likely to have the wound closed in the short term than people on wound care alone.
Find on PubMed →Bennett MH, Kertesz T, Perleth M, et al.. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012.
When started within two weeks of sudden hearing loss, oxygen sessions improved hearing in the trials reviewed. Started late, the benefit is unclear.
Find on PubMed →Murphy-Lavoie H, Butler F, Hagan C. Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, 2012.
When the main artery to the retina blocks, oxygen under pressure can keep the retina alive while the blockage clears. The sooner it starts, the better the chance of saving vision.
Find on PubMed →Londahl M, Katzman P, Nilsson A, Hammarlund C. Diabetes Care, 2010.
In a placebo-controlled trial, about half of the patients who had real oxygen sessions had their foot ulcer fully healed a year later, compared with under a third of those who breathed ordinary air in the chamber.
Find on PubMed →Clarke RE, Tenorio LM, Hussey JR, et al.. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2008.
People with rectal bleeding and pain years after pelvic radiation improved more often with oxygen sessions than with sham sessions.
Find on PubMed →Bouachour G, Cronier P, Gouello JP, et al.. Journal of Trauma, 1996.
After serious crush injuries to a limb, patients who had oxygen sessions healed more completely and needed fewer repeat surgeries than those who had placebo sessions.
Find on PubMed →Riseman JA, Zamboni WA, Curtis A, et al.. Surgery, 1990.
In a surgical series of flesh-eating infections, adding oxygen sessions to surgery and antibiotics was linked with fewer deaths and fewer repeat operations.
Find on PubMed →Marx RE, Johnson RP, Kline SN. Journal of the American Dental Association, 1985.
Patients who had oxygen sessions before and after tooth extractions in a radiated jaw were far less likely to develop bone breakdown than patients given antibiotics alone.
Find on PubMed →Perrins DJ. The Lancet, 1967.
An early controlled trial found that skin grafts were more likely to take when patients had oxygen sessions in the days after surgery.
Find on PubMed →Showing 12 of 12. Summaries follow the published papers and are not claims about results at our clinics.
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
The professional body for hyperbaric medicine. Publishes the approved indications list and treatment protocols.
Open →Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The national coverage determination that lists the conditions Medicare pays for. Our approved list is this list.
Open →National Library of Medicine
The index of peer-reviewed medical research. Every study card on this page links to a search here.
Open →Start here
Call and ask for the clinical team. We will tell you what the research shows for your situation, and if oxygen is not the right tool, we say so.