Surgical indications of hyperbaric oxygen therapy

: Beside clostridial myonecrosis surgical utilization of hyperbaric oxygen remain unprecise. After review of literature, analysis of their experience, the authors define: principles and effects of hyperbaric oxygen, his position with regard to surgical intervention, its surgical utilizations: unquestionable (non clostridial and clostridial gas gangrene), relative (aerobic cellulitis, diabetic arterial disease), preventive.