HBO Updates (online)

Course overview

Course Objectives: This program is designed to provide continuing education on the pathophysiology of various disease states amenable to hyperbaric oxygen therapy with the goal of affording patients the best care possible as expeditiously as feasible based on the most up to date research, literature, and data available. Physicians will be able to make a proper referral for treatment of wounded patients meeting hyperbaric candidacy. Up to date case presentations will enhance learner’s competence. The physician will have increased knowledge, competence and performance of regulatory issues and payment, the ICD-10, and the roles and responsibilities of a medical director in the context of hyperbaric facility safety; verbally demonstrate with a peer proper patient assessment, verbally describe emergent situations and proper action and direction from the physician perspective. Topics: • Updates on the effect of HBO on Wound Healing/Mechanisms • Wagner/WIF as a Grading Scale • New literature for currently accepted indications o Diabetic foot o Compromised flaps grafts o Burns o Radiation injury • New Horizons in Hyperbaric Medicine • Regulatory issues and payment, ICD-10, and Registry • What about this case? (case presentations) • Medical Director and hyperbaric facility safety • Ethical Dilemmas in Hyperbaric Medicine Exam: a quiz will be administered at the end of the program. A course evaluation follows.