• Aviat Space Envir Md · Apr 2002

    Case Reports

    Delayed treatment of frostbite injury with hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a case report.

    • Zare Finderle and Ksenija Cankar.
    • Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenija. finderle@ibmi.mf.uni-lj.si
    • Aviat Space Envir Md. 2002 Apr 1;73(4):392-4.

    AbstractThe effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on skin microcirculation were evaluated by laser-Doppler flowmetry and vital capillary microscopy in a frostbite victim 2 wk after the injury. Laser-Doppler skin blood flow, measured in intact skin on the dorsum of the foot, decreased from 52 to 31 perfusion units during hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The number of visible nutritive capillaries in frostbitten areas on the toes increased from 2 to 12 per mm2, as measured immediately after the hyperbaric oxygen therapy. We conclude that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is capable of improving nutritive skin blood flow in frostbitten areas more than 2 wk after the injury.

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