Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for osteomyelitis, osteoradionecrosis and recurrent ear infections

Abstract EN

To highlight a patient’s experience to health care professionals is to get a patient’s perspective on symptom perception, symptom action, symptom formation, response to illness and response to treatment.

The present narrative not only vividly describes a patient’s behaviour during illness, but also shows how the information age can enhance a patient’s choice of treatment.

While Internet surfing in Australia in her quest to find ‘answers’, she serendipitously uncovered an article published in the January 1999 Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal Malignant Otitis Externa and Temporal Bone Osteomyelitis: complete Recovery Following the Adjunctive Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen and Antibiotics, p.

47) on hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).

She convinced her attending physicians to ‘treat’ her using HBOT.

She attributes the recent improved quality of her life to this treatment.