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Topical oxygen therapy, sometimes also called topical hyperbaric oxygen therapy, has become increasingly popular in recent times. It involves inserting an affected limb into a gasimpermeable bag, securing the device to the limb with a tourniquet, and surrounding the affected limb with pure oxygen under slightly elevated pressure. There are several devices on the market, including O2Boot, Topox, and the Advanced Hyperbaric Technologies, Inc. Topical Oxygen System. These have recently been introduced and are now actively promoted in South Africa. Unfortunately, although convenient and relatively inexpensive, topical oxygen is clinically ineffective. The amount of oxygen absorbed through intact skin is negligible and even through open wounds it is extremely small. In addition, wound healing depends on an oxygen and circulatory gradient from the periphery to the middle of the wound. This initiates and directs the normal wound-healing process. Even if topical oxygen could increase wound oxygen levels, it would create a reverse gradient, i.e. higher values in the wound than in the periphery. Unlike topical oxygen, systemically delivered hyperbaric oxygen accentuates the normal gradient and induces angiogenesis and healing over time.

Oxygen therapy and wound healing--topical oxygen is not hyperbaric oxygen therapy.