Abstract:
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) consists of intermittently administering 100% oxygen at pressures greater than 1 atmosphere in a pressure vessel. This technology has been used to treat a variety of disease states and has been described as helping patients who have sustained burns. The aim of this review was to assess the evidence for the benefit of hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) for the treatment of thermal burns. We searched the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (The Cochrane Library, Issue 3, 2002), MEDLINE (Ovid 1966 to November Week 2, 2003), CINAHL (Ovid 1982 to December Week 2 2003), EMBASE (Ovid 1980 to September 2003), DORCTHIM (Database of Randomised Controlled Trials in Hyperbaric Medicine) from inception to 2003, and reference lists of articles. We included all randomised controlled trials that compared the effect of HBOT with no HBOT (no treatment or sham).
Villanueva, Bennett, Wasiak, Lehm, , , , , (2004). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for thermal burns. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2004 ;(3):CD004727. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15266540