Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research for Brown Recluse Spider Bite.
Abstract: Loxosceles reclusa (brown recluse) spider bites can produce severe skin lesions that may necessitate extensive surgical repair. This study delineated the effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy on these lesions by performing a prospective controlled...
Abstract: A significant number of people are bitten by the brown recluse spider (BRS) each year. Medical treatment regimens are sometimes unsatisfactory and surgical intervention is often necessary to debride the necrotic wound. This case study reports the treatment...
Abstract: To determine whether hyperbaric O2 (HBO), dapsone, or HBO plus dapsone affects lesion size in a swine model of Loxosceles envenomation. In a randomized controlled animal laboratory experiment, 32 piglets were assigned to 1 of 4 equal groups. Each piglet...
Abstract: McClure, , , , , , , , (1995). Necrotising arachnidism treated with hyperbaric oxygen. The Medical journal of Australia, 1995 Jul;163(1):51-2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7609695
Abstract: To determine whether hyperbaric oxygen (HBO), dapsone, or cyproheptadine decreases the severity of skin lesions resulting from experimental Loxosceles envenomation. Randomized, blinded, controlled study. Animal care facility. We used New Zealand white...
Abstract: Nine cases of cervical necrotizing faciitis are presented. Five were odontogenic, three were pharyngeal in origin, and one developed from a soft-tissue spider bite. The bacteriology represented a polyculture of gram-positive, gram-negative, as well as...
Abstract: HBO has become recognized as a potential treatment for a variety of toxins. HBO is helpful because it provides an excess of dissolved oxygen, which not only can sustain life in the absence of hemoglobin, but in some cases can actually increase the clearance...
Abstract: Human loxoscelism was modeled in albino rabbits by injection of brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) venom, and the effects of daily or twice-daily hyperbaric oxygen treatment on wound healing were investigated. Lesions similar to those seen in humans...
Abstract: Pyoderma gangrenosum is a cutaneous disorder characterized by slowly progressive ulceration which is refractory to local wound care and antibiotic therapy. The diagnosis is made after the exclusion of other causes of cutaneous ulceration. The cause of...