Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment For Pets?

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for pets? Apparently, that's what they are exploring in Florida and a few other states. It may make sense, if you think about it.

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers are pressurized with 100% pure oxygen to get high levels of oxygen into your body. This high concentration exceeds by as much as ten times the level of oxygen that can be carried to a non-healing wound by blood alone. When utilized as a medical therapy, oxygen in high doses can help heal damaged organs, promote the healing of chronic wounds and save lives.

So it makes sense that if humans can heal non-healing wounds with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, so, too, might animals. Some unanswered questions come to mind, however.bIn human hyperbaric oxygen therapy dives, people are taught how to equalize pressure that occurs during the descent of the dive such as plugging one's nose and blowing out gently...the same type of maneuver we might do when ascending in an airplane. So, how does the animal equalize pressure within its eardrum? And what other signs of feedback are reliable other than barks and whimpers which may occur simply because of the unfamiliar environment? What if the animal suffers a stroke and becomes unconscious, yet is perceived as sleeping? So many unanswered questions remain.

In any case, it is interesting to explore the theory of pet hyperbaric oxygen treatment and the possible positive outcomes that may ensue for not only the animals, but for their owners as well!

http://www.scoop.it/t/wound-car-by-encompasshealthcare