Facility categories
A decompression emergency, a diabetic foot ulcer and a wellness session are not served by the same chamber. These six groupings are derived from how each facility describes itself in the source listing.
Dive-site and offshore recompression stations covering commercial and recreational diving incidents.
Open category pageMinistry of Health and university teaching hospitals with hyperbaric units or formal referral pathways into one.
Open category pageIntegrative rehabilitation and wellness centres, typically running mild hyperbaric chambers at lower pressures.
Open category pageStandalone hyperbaric centres, diving medicine clinics and medical-grade medspas, usually accepting direct enquiries.
Open category pageArmed forces and naval recompression chambers. Several act as national referral centres and accept civilian emergencies.
Open category pageHyperbaric oxygen therapy
Oxygen, under pressure
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy means breathing oxygen inside a sealed chamber held above normal atmospheric pressure. Under pressure, far more oxygen dissolves into the bloodstream than breathing normally allows, and reaches tissue that a poor blood supply would otherwise starve.
In its established clinical uses, that extra oxygen does real work. It helps stalled wounds begin to close, supports new blood vessel growth in poorly supplied tissue, clears carbon monoxide far faster than air alone, and remains the definitive treatment for decompression sickness. Chamber types, pressures and clinical scope differ from centre to centre, which is what this directory sets out to make clear.