HYPERBARIC MEDICINE. Manual for Healthcare Professionals: Vol. III: New Applications

Can hyperbaric oxygen therapy go beyond its classical indications? This third volume of Hyperbaric Medicine. Manual for Healthcare Professionals explores, through a rigorous and evidence-based approach, the territory where established knowledge ends and clinical innovation begins: the emerging applications of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as an adjuvant treatment. Drawing on real-world clinical experience and a critical analysis of the available scientific literature, this work examines those conditions in which HBOT is already being used beyond official recommendations. These include subacute and chronic stroke, spinal cord injury, long COVID, endothelial dysfunction, microvascular disease, bone marrow edema, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, and other multisystem disorders. The book also explores areas of particular current and future potential, such as sports medicine (injury management, performance and recovery), biological aging, telomere dynamics, cellular senescence, regenerative medicine, mitochondrial dysfunction, and human fertility. With a strongly practical focus, it includes structured tables and protocols used in daily clinical practice, presented as applied strategies-not as established standards-along with concrete proposals for the development of future lines of research. Far from promoting indiscriminate use, this work provides clinicians with a solid framework to interpret the available evidence, identify plausible scenarios for application, and accurately understand the current limits of knowledge. An essential volume for healthcare professionals seeking to understand not only what hyperbaric oxygen therapy is today, but also its potential in the medicine of the future.

Pagina's: 375, Paperback, Independently published