Glossary
Reperfusion injury
Tissue damage that occurs when blood flow returns after a period of oxygen loss.
Reperfusion injury is paradoxical damage that happens when blood — and oxygen — floods back into tissue that was starved. HBOT has been shown to modulate the inflammatory cascade involved, part of its benefit in crush injury and some flap salvage.
More terms
Fibroblast
The cell that builds collagen and rebuilds wounds — and needs oxygen to work.
Stem cell mobilization
HBOT's ability to release stem cells from bone marrow into circulation.
Boyle's Law
Gas volume shrinks as pressure rises — why bubbles shrink under recompression.
Normobaric
At normal atmospheric pressure (1 ATA).