Veterinary HBOT - A short note:

Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy has been used in human medicine is a long established since the beginning of the 20th century and a studied medical treatment program  which enhances the body's natural healing process.  The use of it in animals began to benefit in the last 30 years.

There has been more research on HBOT than on any drug or device ever approved by the FDA. There are more than 30,000 published studies on Hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Proven effective in human medicine, indications in animals are largely adapted from human studies. However, it is worthy of noting that most published human studies  in the modern days are based on animal studies. Vice a versa, proven experience in human studies have shown that the same technology can be applied successfully to many medical conditions in animals. 

Veterinary medicine is advancing quickly, as human treatments are starting to be used in pets with good results.  The success of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the veterinary medicine has led to the development of a specific governing body in early 2000, The Veterinary Hyperbaric Medicine Society (VHMS). 

Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (VHBOT) is being routinely used in veterinary medicine to treat swelling, trauma, non-healing wounds, infections, sepsis, pancreatitis, stroke & other serious ailments. Several Small Animal clinics world wide have performed over millions of procedures on various conditions and have benefited the pet owners enormously.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a cutting edge veterinary medical technology, proven, and an exciting adjunctive therapy that has provided veterinarians with another option to significantly improve animal medical care, and has been in small animal veterinary medicine in the treatment of multiple conditions over the past 15 years.

Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (VHBOT) is still largely an under utilized modality in many parts of the globe including India.

Veterinary Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (VHBOT) can be of great help to small animal veterinary patients by speeding up the healing process and may reduce or eliminate the need for more invasive procedures such as surgery, oftentimes resulting in a net savings of time and cost of treatment for pet owners.