Hyperbaric-oxygen treatment: An adjunctive therapy in acute renal failure due to crush injury

Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Cenk Gulgun, Salih Aydin, Nilgun Aysuna, Semra Bozfakioglu, Mehmet S Sever

Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Istanbul, Turkey.
Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Nephrology, Istanbul, Turkey.
Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.

DOI: 10.4236/ns.2012.428092                

Abstract

Objective: Major seismic events leave their survivors trapped under the rubble leading to extensive muscle damage and its devastating sequale of hemodynamic and metabolic disturbances and acute renal failure. Hypoxemia aggravated during each hemodialysis (HD) session is important in acute renal failure patients with massive tissue injury. We retrospectively analyzed the adjunctive role of hyperbaric-oxygen (HBO) therapy in patients treated with HD for acute renal failure due to crush injury in terms of dialysis duration. Patients and methods: 16 patients admitted after the Marmara earthquake to Istanbul Faculty of Medicine were treated with HBO. Only 8 (2M, 6F, mean age: 24.8 + 7.3 years) of them had required HD treatment. 29 (16M, 13F, mean age: 34.6 + 12.9 years) crush syndrome patients treated with HD but not with HBO were taken as controls and the clinical and laboratory data of the two groups were compared. Results: The mean duration time under the rubble for the HBO group was 9.4 + 3.2 hours. Mainly lower extremity fasciotomies were performed at 15.6 + 14.8 hours after extrication. There were no amputations in this group. There were three amputations in the control group. The mean number of HD sessions was 9.2 + 6.7/patient for 10.9+9.6 days until renal functions recovered and the patients had 27.4 + 15.6 HBO sessions until the recovery of their lesions. There were no correlations between the number of HBO sessions and any laboratory parameter nor the number of HD sessions. There was no statistical difference in the need for HD between the HBO and control group. Conclusions: Our results could not demonstrate any beneficial effect of HBO treatment in terms of HD duration; however, the valuable contribution of the HBO treatment was to increase the salvage of crushed limbs.

Keywords

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment; Crush Injury; Hemodialysis

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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