Resumen

ESCARPANTER BULIES, Julio César. Oxygen-ozone therapy as a coadjuvant in the treatment of bone infections. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 2005, vol.19, n.1. ISSN 0864-215X.

A study of the treatment of bone infections that combines traditional methods with the use of ozone therapy in its diverse modes of application wasconducted. A sample of 22 patients affected with chronic osteomyelitis that were treated by using the conventional methods for more than 6 months and with histories of frequent relapses and remission times of the supurative picture of no more than 6 months was taken. A combined treatment with local and systemic ozone was added. The results obtained after the ozone therapy were encouraging in 73 % of the patients. Those results together with its easy obtention and its unexpensive use allowed to recommend it as a coadjuvant treatment in this type of complication,

Palabras clave : Ozone therapy; oxygen; osteomyelitis; sepsis.