Influence of Adjuvant Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Short-term Complications During Surgical Reconstruction of Upper and Lower Extremity War Injuries: Retrospective Cohort Study

Abstract

HBO therapy reduced the frequency of wound complications in patients with Gustilo type III wounds and shortened the time to granulation formation. HBO therapy was more effective in non-NATO than in NATO treated patients for the prevention of deep soft-tissue infection but not flap necrosis.