Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center
Care areas
About
The Center for Hyperbaric Medicine is a hospital-based hyperbaric program of Hennepin Healthcare at HCMC in Minneapolis. Hennepin Healthcare has provided hyperbaric oxygen for patient care and research since 1964. Treatment takes place in multiplace chamber rooms that hold four to eight patients at a time, and hyperbaric oxygen is available around the clock for emergency patients. The physicians are board certified in emergency medicine and in undersea and hyperbaric medicine, and the center also offers dive medicine physicals for recreational and commercial divers.
Clinic services
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Hyperbaric physician consultation
- Emergency hyperbaric oxygen therapy (24/7)
- Dive medicine physicals
Conditions
- Acute traumatic ischemic injuries
- Arterial gas embolism
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Central retinal artery occlusion
- Decompression sickness
- Exceptional blood loss anemia
- Gas gangrene and necrotizing fasciitis
- Specific acute thermal burns
- Avascular necrosis* (off-label use)
- Compromised grafts & flaps
- Delayed soft-tissue radiation injury
- Enhanced healing of selected problem wounds
- Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss
- Intracranial abscess
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Refractory osteomyelitis
* Off-label: outside FDA-cleared HBOT uses. FDA HBOT guidance
Planning your visit
The patient's doctor must request a consultation with the hyperbaric physician before an appointment can be made.
The first visit is a consultation with a hyperbaric physician, covering a review of medical history and records, a physical examination and a recommendation for or against treatment; in most cases no treatment is given that day. Patients are encouraged to bring a current medication list and a family member. A chest X-ray and some laboratory tests are required before the first treatment and may be done at the patient's own physician's office. Most patients are treated once a day, five days a week, and most treatments last about two hours. Patients rest in a chair in the chamber with several other patients and a medical attendant, breathe oxygen through a mask or hood, and are taught how to equalize ear pressure before treatment starts. Emergency patients are treated whenever needed, regardless of day or time.
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