Interview conducted at the AMCPER 2026 Congress — Expo Santa Fe, Mexico City Interviewer: Dr. Fabrizio Verdini, Biobarica Medical Liaison

 

---

 

Today's patient does not just want a good surgical result. They want to get back to their life as soon as possible — back to work, back to routine, back to their activities. That expectation — legitimate and growing — defines one of the main challenges of modern postoperative recovery. Dr. Teresa Guerrero, a patient recovery specialist at Hospital Innovar in Guadalajara, found in the hyperbaric chamber the tool that allows her to meet that demand with concrete results.

 

---

 

The Central Challenge: Fast Recovery as a Patient Expectation

 

When Dr. Fabrizio Verdini asks what the most important challenges are in postoperative recovery, Dr. Guerrero goes straight to the point:

 

"Today's patient wants a fast recovery because they want to get back to work. And one of the tools we have to make that happen is the hyperbaric chamber."

 

This observation captures something that goes beyond the clinical: a shift in patient expectations. Tolerance for prolonged recovery times is decreasing. Patients research, compare, and choose centers that can offer them not only an aesthetic result, but the shortest and most comfortable path back to their daily lives.

 

In that context, hyperbaric therapy is not just a clinical resource — it is a differentiating value proposition for the center that offers it.

 

---

 

A Flexible Protocol, Adapted to Each Patient and Each Stay

 

Dr. Guerrero works at a hospital where patients have variable length-of-stay windows, which requires a protocol that can adapt without losing efficacy. Her approach is pragmatic and clear:

 

• Packages of 3, 5, or 10 sessions, depending on how long the patient remains at the hospital
• Preoperative sessions for patients with risk factors, with the goal of preparing tissues before surgery
• Postoperative sessions for all patients, focused on accelerating inflammation reduction and optimizing healing

 

This flexibility is one of the most practical attributes of the Revitalair hyperbaric chamber: it allows for tailored protocols without requiring additional infrastructure or dedicated specialized staff, adapting to the real patient flow of each center.

 

---

 

Preoperative for Higher-Risk Patients, Postoperative for Everyone

 

Dr. Guerrero has a defined clinical criterion for preoperative prioritization. Patients with risk factors — smoking, obesity, hypertension, diabetes — are candidates for two or three sessions before surgery:

 

"If the patient has any risk factor, we always prefer to bring them into the chamber preoperatively — two or three times — so that the tissue prepares itself and has a better response during surgery."

 

But the postoperative criteria is universal:

 

"We bring all patients in general into the chamber after surgery with the same goal: the patient will recover much faster, will reduce inflammation much faster, and obviously we have fewer complications in the healing process — which is something very important that we are currently seeing."

 

Three benefits stated with precision: faster recovery, accelerated reduction of inflammation, and fewer healing complications. All three have a direct impact on patient satisfaction and on the center's reputation.

 

The physiological mechanism behind them is consistent: hyperbaric medicine raises dissolved oxygen levels in plasma, stimulates collagen synthesis, improves tissue perfusion, and reduces the systemic inflammatory response — exactly the processes that determine the speed and quality of postoperative recovery.

 

---

 

Why Biobarica: Ease of Use, Simple Installation, and Comparable Results

 

When Dr. Verdini asks what she would recommend to a colleague evaluating which brand to choose, Dr. Guerrero offers an answer that combines clinical judgment with practical experience:

 

"What I would recommend is first to try the product. In my experience it is a chamber that is easy to use, does not require complex installation, and has the same benefits — or sometimes even better results — than a hard chamber, because of the ease of placing the patient in a more comfortable space."

 

This comparison — with hard chambers, which have historically been the standard in hospital settings — is significant coming from a physician who works in a hospital. Dr. Guerrero is not choosing the Biobarica hyperbaric chamber by elimination or price: she is choosing it because in her clinical experience the results are equivalent or superior, with a qualitatively better patient experience.

 

Comfort is not an aesthetic detail. A patient who feels comfortable inside the chamber completes the protocol. A completed protocol generates the expected results. And expected results are what the patient recommends.

 

---

 

A User-Friendly System That Supports From Day One

 

Dr. Guerrero closes her testimony with an observation that goes beyond the device itself:

 

"Biobarica has really worked very well for us — their system is very user-friendly."

 

That "user-friendliness" is not limited to the chamber. It includes the Biobarica Global System: validated clinical protocols, ongoing training, patient management software, and real-time remote technical support. For a hospital like Innovar, where patient recovery is the central focus of care, having a support ecosystem that responds and accompanies makes a difference that is felt every day.

 

---

 

Conclusion: A Tool That Meets the Demands of Today's Patient

 

What Dr. Teresa Guerrero describes from Guadalajara is the experience of a hospital that understood that postoperative recovery is part of the clinical result — and gave that stage the tools it deserves.

 

Patients who recover faster. Less inflammation. Fewer healing complications. And an experience inside the chamber that patients tolerate, value, and recommend.

 

In a context where patients demand to return to their lives as soon as possible, the hyperbaric chamber is not a luxury: it is the clinical and strategic response that modern recovery centers need.

 

If you are a physician and want to learn how to integrate the hyperbaric chamber into your practice, contact our team and a Biobarica specialist will guide you from the very first step.

 

---

 

Interview conducted at AMCPER 2026, Plastic Surgery Congress, Expo Santa Fe, Mexico City. Interviewer: Dr. Fabrizio Verdini, Biobarica Medical Liaison.