Hyperbaric oxygen after surgery

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is an important tool for helping your body heal after surgery. Whether it’s an elective surgery like a facelift, or an emergency surgery after an injury, your body will heal quicker with hyperbaric oxygen.

Sitting here reading this article, you are breathing about 21% oxygen. Your lungs push oxygen into your blood stream and pull carbon dioxide out. In a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, you are breathing 80-100% oxygen and the chamber is creating pressure around you. This allows for more oxygen to get into your blood stream and get to your wound.

When your skin and tissue are cut during surgery, the blood vessels are also cut. It takes a few days to a week for the blood vessel to fully repair. Your cells need blood to carry the oxygen and heal, so when you have a disrupted blood supply, wound healing can be delayed. With hyperbaric oxygen treatment, we are supersaturating your blood and plasma with oxygen. The oxygen can get to your wounds through the fluid surrounding it, even if the blood supply is compromised.

Many surgeons are recommending getting hyperbaric oxygen treatment after a facelift, tummy tuck, BBL, breast augmentation and more. There are less complications, less infections, and faster healing times with hyperbaric treatments.