May 22, 2026
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Interview conducted at the AMCPER 2026 Congress — Expo Santa Fe, Mexico City
In Tijuana, plastic surgery has a particular dimension: patients arrive from other countries, undergo surgery, and need to recover quickly enough to return home. In that context, the margin for complications is minimal, and the efficiency of the postoperative process is not a competitive differentiator — it is a clinical necessity. Dr. Jorge Morán, a specialist in body contouring and breast surgery, found in the Biobarica hyperbaric chamber the tool that allowed him to meet that demand with concrete results.
Complex Surgeries, Demanding Patients: The Context That Led to the Decision
Dr. Morán does not work with simple procedures. His practice combines multiple surgeries — such as the mommy makeover, which can include abdominoplasty, liposuction, and breast surgery in a single intervention — with a patient profile that, given the medical tourism context, has narrow recovery windows and very high expectations.
"It's not just about performing the surgery correctly — postoperative care involves multiple factors that determine whether the result is successful."
That awareness of the postoperative period as an integral part of the surgical outcome was what led Dr. Morán to incorporate the hyperbaric chamber into his care circuit. Not as an optional complement, but as a structural safety tool within his protocol.
A Protocol Built on Clinical Evidence
Dr. Morán does not improvise sessions. He works with a medical safety committee that evaluates each patient comprehensively before defining the hyperbaric treatment plan:
- Hemoglobin levels, which determine the tissue oxygenation capacity prior to surgery
- Smoking history, a critical risk factor for healing and flap perfusion
- Comorbidities such as diabetes or other conditions affecting vascular and regenerative response
With that analysis, Dr. Morán's general protocol establishes a minimum of five preoperative sessions and five postoperative sessions, with the possibility of extending treatment based on each patient's clinical progress.
This flexibility — grounded in medical judgment rather than rigid protocols — is one of the strengths that hyperbaric medicine enables with precision: adjusting the therapeutic dose to the tissue's actual response.
The Most Important Differentiator: Preventing Before It Happens
When asked what has been the greatest differentiator since incorporating the hyperbaric chamber, Dr. Morán does not hesitate:
"It has had a major impact on preventing complications in patients with comorbidities. We want to avoid reaching the point of complication."
This preventive orientation is especially relevant in the context of the mommy makeover and other high-invasiveness combined surgeries. When working with elevated risk margins — patients with prior conditions, extensive procedures, prolonged surgical times — the ability to anticipate complications makes the difference between a successful outcome and a clinical crisis.
Hyperbaric oxygenation acts precisely at that point: it improves tissue perfusion, stimulates angiogenesis, reduces the inflammatory response, and prepares tissues to withstand and recover from significant surgical trauma.
Medical Tourism: When Recovery Time Is a Requirement
Tijuana is one of the most active medical tourism destinations in North America. Thousands of patients — primarily from the United States and Canada — travel to access high-quality plastic surgeries at accessible costs. But that model comes with a specific demand: patients need to recover quickly because they have a return flight, a family waiting, and a life to get back to.
Dr. Morán quantifies precisely what the hyperbaric chamber achieved in that context:
"The hyperbaric chamber has made it possible for recovery processes in body contouring surgery to take around 10 days, and the patient can already return to their country."
Ten days to recover from a high-complexity combined surgery is a result that transforms the care model. It reduces the length of stay, minimizes exposure to postoperative risks far from the medical center, and above all, gives patients the certainty that they can return home without compromising their recovery.
Three Benefits, Three Confirmations
In one of the most direct exchanges of the interview, Dr. Fabrizio Verdini, Biobarica's medical liaison, lists the clinical benefits of hyperbaric therapy one by one — and Dr. Morán confirms each without hesitation:
Accelerated recovery times → "Absolutely."
Healing → "Absolutely."
Analgesia → "That's right."
These responses, delivered by a board-certified plastic surgeon with extensive experience in high-complexity surgeries and medical tourism, distill years of clinical evidence into an unambiguous message: hyperbaric therapy works, and the results are consistent.
The Definitive Argument: Having It in Your Practice, Under Your Supervision
Dr. Morán's closing statement is one of the most compelling arguments a physician can make to colleagues who still refer patients to external centers:
"As board-certified plastic surgeons, we must be responsible for the patient's progress from beginning to end. That is why having a hyperbaric chamber is indispensable. Even if external services exist, nothing beats having everything in your own practice, under your supervision, at the service of your patients."
There are two dimensions to that statement. The first is ethical: the surgeon's responsibility toward the patient does not end in the operating room. The second is practical: when the chamber is in practice, the physician controls the protocol, the timing of sessions, tissue progress, and the patient experience. Nothing is lost in the referral. Nothing is left to a third party's judgment.
The Biobarica Global System was designed precisely to make that integration possible: patient management software, validated clinical protocols, ongoing training, and remote technical support — all available from day one of operation.
Conclusion: From Surgery to Discharge, With a Single Medical Team
What Dr. Jorge Morán describes from Tijuana is not just a story of good results. It is an integrated care model where the hyperbaric chamber is a structural part of the process, not an accessory.
From the preoperative evaluation to postoperative discharge — through complication prevention, accelerated healing, and pain reduction — hyperbaric therapy accompanies every stage of the patient's journey. And in a medical tourism context where margins are tight and expectations are high, that integration is not a luxury: it is the difference between an exceptional result and one that fell short.
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.
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