UCLA Hyperbaric Medicine
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About
UCLA Hyperbaric Medicine is the hyperbaric oxygen therapy program of UCLA Health in Los Angeles. Treatment is given in a multiplace chamber that fits up to 18 people, and a hyperbaric nurse or technician stays inside the chamber with patients during sessions. Physicians directly supervise every session, including emergency care. The program lists non-healing and diabetic wounds, injuries from radiation therapy, bone and skin infections, compromised grafts and flaps, carbon monoxide poisoning and decompression sickness among the conditions it treats. The program says its multiplace chamber can also treat critical care and unconscious patients.
Clinic services
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Wound management
- Emergency hyperbaric care
- HBOT after radiation
- HBOT for SCUBA divers
- Transcutaneous oximetry (TCOM)
- Dive physicals
Conditions
- Acute traumatic blood loss
- Crush injuries, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemias
- Acute thermal burns
- Bone and skin infections, including chronic refractory osteomyelitis
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Carbon monoxide poisoning complicated by cyanide poisoning
- Compromised grafts & flaps
- Decompression illness
- Delayed radiation injuries to soft tissue and bone
- Non-healing wounds
- Compromised surgical wounds
- Diabetic foot wounds and other arterial insufficiencies
- Central retinal artery occlusion
- Air or gas embolism
- Gas gangrene (clostridial myositis and myonecrosis)
- Severe anemia
- Intracranial abscess
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
Planning your visit
Non-emergency patients need a referral letter from their primary-care physician requesting a consultation with the hyperbaric physicians.
Once the referral arrives, the program books a visit with its hyperbaric physicians and staff, who then recommend a plan of care. A typical outpatient schedule is 30 treatments given once daily, Monday through Friday, for about two hours each session; most treatment plans involve at least 20 sessions, and the number and frequency vary with each patient's condition. Patients wear the 100% cotton clothing provided for each treatment. Items not allowed in the chamber include electronics, cosmetics (hair spray, make-up, perfume), hair gels, jewelry, petroleum-based products, synthetic materials (nylon, rayon, wool), glass, alcohol, cigarettes, lighters or matches, watches, pens, newspapers and batteries. Patients with diarrhea, fever, head congestion, nausea, vomiting or pain should speak with the hyperbaric staff before treatment. A physician assesses each patient before and after every treatment, and a nurse or technician trained in hyperbaric medicine stays in the chamber during sessions.
Nearby clinics
Within 25 miles
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