Necrotizing Soft Tissue
Adjunct HBOT for necrotizing fasciitis and severe soft tissue infections — life-threatening conditions requiring urgent care.
Necrotizing Soft Tissue
Understanding Necrotizing Soft Tissue
Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI), including necrotizing fasciitis (‘flesh-eating disease’), are rapidly progressing, life-threatening bacterial infections that destroy skin, fat, and fascia. Surgical debridement and antibiotics are the primary treatment; HBOT is an OHIP-covered adjunct that improves outcomes.
Signs & Symptoms:
- Rapidly spreading redness, swelling, and pain
- Skin discoloration (grey, blue-black patches)
- Blistering or skin necrosis
- High fever, chills, systemic toxicity
- Disproportionate pain relative to visible findings (early sign)
- Crepitus (crackling sensation under skin)
Why Modern Medical
Your Necrotizing Soft Tissue Treatment Team
Antimicrobial Action
HBOT creates a high-oxygen environment directly toxic to anaerobic bacteria, enhancing your immune system’s ability to fight infection.
Adjunct to Surgery
HBOT works alongside surgical debridement and antibiotics, improving outcomes by promoting healing at tissue margins and enhancing antibiotic efficacy.
Physician-Supervised
A hyperbaric-trained physician is always on site during treatment sessions, ensuring your safety and monitoring your clinical progress.
The Science
How HBOT Treats Necrotizing Soft Tissue
HBOT creates a high-oxygen environment directly toxic to the anaerobic bacteria driving necrotizing infections. It also enhances white blood cell killing ability, supports antibiotic efficacy, and promotes healing of tissue margins following surgical debridement.
Necrotizing Soft Tissue is one of 14 OHIP-approved indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Treatment at Modern Medical is fully covered — no upfront costs to patients with a physician referral.
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