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Free, evidence-based guides on hyperbaric oxygen therapy for patients and physicians, plus a review of Canadian HBOT research. Each guide can be read on this site, downloaded as a PDF, or downloaded as a self-contained HTML file.
Kept current. Every guide here is reviewed and updated each quarter so the research and referral guidance stay current.
A descriptive review for clinicians and researchers. This review describes the open-access, Canadian-led hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) research published from 2020 through 2025, drawing on the 35 freely available studies in the...
A plain-language guide for patients and families in Canada. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, often shortened to HBOT, is a real medical treatment with a defined and limited set of uses. If you have read about it online, you may have seen...
A plain-language guide for patients starting a course of HBOT. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) means breathing pure oxygen while sitting or lying inside a pressurised chamber. It is used in Canada for 14 conditions that Health Canada...
For physicians assessing a patient's suitability for HBOT. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is publicly funded in Canada for 14 conditions, and at Canadian hospital-based programmes it is delivered as adjunctive or primary treatment within...
For physicians referring patients to hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Canada. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is publicly funded across most of the country for a defined set of conditions, but the referral pathway differs sharply between...
When to refer, how to assess the patient before referral, what the evidence supports, the Canadian referral pathway, contraindications, and the open-access research published since 2020.
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Air or gas embolism is one of the 14 conditions for which Canadian hospital-based hyperbaric programmes, working within Health Canada-aligned practice, provide hyperbaric oxygen...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Decompression sickness is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and recompression is its definitive treatment, delivered as an...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Gas gangrene (clostridial myonecrosis) is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and it is treated as a surgical emergency at every...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI), including necrotizing fasciitis and Fournier gangrene, fall under one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Enhancement of healing in selected problem wounds is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and it is among the most common...
For referring physicians and surgeons in Canada. Chronic refractory osteomyelitis is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and it is treated as an elective, adjunctive course at...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Delayed radiation injury is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and the soft-tissue forms (radiation cystitis, radiation proctitis,...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Radiation damage affecting bone, most commonly mandibular osteoradionecrosis (ORN) after head and neck radiotherapy, is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Compromised skin grafts and flaps are one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and the therapy is offered as an adjunct to...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Severe thermal burn injury is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and where it is used it is an adjunct to specialised burn-centre...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Crush injury, compartment syndrome and acute traumatic ischaemia are among the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and they are treated as a...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Exceptional blood loss anaemia is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and it is treated as an emergency at every Canadian...
For referring and emergency physicians in Canada. Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) is one of the 14 conditions publicly funded in Canada for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), and it is treated as a time-sensitive...