Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Sarasota Memorial offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy for various conditions. This therapy involves breathing 100 percent oxygen at a pressure greater than the surrounding atmosphere, which can accelerate healing by stimulating the growth of new blood vessels, tissue and bone cells. Some of the conditions we treat include:

• Diabetic non-healing ulcer
• Osteomyelitis (refractory)
• Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis)
• Air or gas embolism
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Carbon monoxide poisoning complicated by cyanide poisoning
• Clostridial myositis and myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
• Crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic Ischemia’s Decompression sickness
• Arterial insufficiencies, such as:
  • Central retinal artery occlusion
  • Severe anemia
  • Intracranial abscess
  • Necrotizing soft tissue infections
  • Compromised grafts and flaps
  • Acute thermal burn injury
  • Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss

Under the medical direction of Peter Graper, MD, board certified in cardiac/thoracic surgery and undersea & hyperbaric medicine, the Hyperbaric Medicine Department located on Sarasota Memorial’s main campus has two climate-controlled hyperbaric chambers. Please note that the department is open Monday through Friday, and is not an emergency center. For information or to schedule an appointment, please call 941-917-1866.