- Decompression
Sickness.
- Air
Embolism (cerebral and peripheral).
- Poisoning:
carbon monoxide, cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, carbon tetrachloride.
- Treatment
of infections: soft tissue infection, gas gangrene,
acute necrotizing fascitis, refractory mycoses, leprosy,
osteomyelitis, fungal infection.
-
Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery, Dermatology: For non-healing wounds,
an aid to the survival of skin flaps with marginal circulation, and an adjunct to the treatment of burns.
- Traumatology:
crush injuries, compartment syndrome, soft tissue sports injuries.
- Orthopedics:
non-union of fractures, bone grafts, osteoradionecrosis.
- Peripheral
Vascular Disease: shock, myocardial ischemia, aid to cardiac
surgery, angina pectoris, ischemic gangrene, ischemic leg pain.
- Neurological
Disorders/ Neurosurgery: Stroke, cerebral palsy, multiple
sclerosis, migraine, cerebral edema, multi-infarct dementia, spinal
cord injury and vascular diseases of the spinal cord, brain abscess,
peripheral neuropathy, radiation myelitis, vegetative coma, anoxia,
global ischemia.
- Hematology/
Immunology: sickle cell crises, severe blood loss anemia.
- Ophthalmology:
occlusion of central artery of retina, glaucoma.
- Gastro-intestinal:
gastric ulcer, necrotizing enteroscolitis, paralytic ileus,
pneumotoides cystoides intestinalis, hepatitis, Crohn’s Disease.
- For
enhancement of Radiosensitivity of malignant tumors.
- Otorhinolaryngology:
sudden deafness, acute acoustic trauma, labyrinthitis, Meniere's
disease, malignant otitis externa (chronic infection).
- Lung
Diseases: lung abscess, pulmonary embolism (adjunct to surgery).
- Endocrine:
complications of diabetes.
- Obstetrics/
Neonatology: complicated pregnancy--diabetes, eclampsia, heart
disease, placental hypoxia, fetal hypoxia, congenital heart disease
of the neonate.
- Geriatrics:
brain functions, general hypoxia.
- Asphyxiation/
Pulmonary Disorders: drowning, smoke inhalation.
- Aid
to Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine: spastic hemiplegia of
stroke, paraplegia, chronic myocardial insufficiency, peripheral
vascular disease.
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