Hyperbaric medicine is the branch of medicine in which clinical therapies are delivered inside pressurized vessels containing prescribed barometric pressures of gases such as air or oxygen, with immediate effects including reduced size of gas emboli and raised partial pressures of the gases present. It was initially used for decompression sickness and is also effective for certain cases of gas gangrene and carbon monoxide poisoning, though risks include barotrauma and, when pure oxygen is used, fire hazard. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy uses greater than ninety nine percent oxygen at a pressure above atmospheric pressure inside a hyperbaric chamber, while hyperbaric air, compressed atmospheric air, is used for acute mountain sickness in a portable inflatable chamber; other uses include treating arterial gas embolism from pulmonary barotrauma, and in emergencies divers are sometimes treated by in water recompression when a chamber is unavailable.
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Which conditions can hyperbaric oxygen therapy be used to treat?
It may be used for burns; crush injuries; frostbite; carbon monoxide poisoning; and decompression sickness.
MedlinePlus lists a range of conditions that hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be used to treat, including burns, crush injuries, frostbite, carbon monoxide poisoning, certain types of brain or sinus infections and decompression sickness, the diving injury. The therapy uses a pressure chamber to increase the amount of oxygen in the blood. This is a description of recognized uses and is not medical advice.
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A British physician, Nathaniel Henshaw, proposed what would have been the first hyperbaric chamber for medical treatment of humans in 1662.
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Hyperbaric medicine is the branch of medicine in which clinical therapies are delivered in pressurized vessels containing prescribed barometric pressures of gases such as air or oxygen.
Treats: Decompression Sickness, Lead
Initial uses were in decompression sickness, and it is also effective in certain cases of gas gangrene and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Treats: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Lead
Initial uses were in decompression sickness, and it is also effective in certain cases of gas gangrene and carbon monoxide poisoning.
In Group: Oxygen, Light and Pressure Therapies, Introduction
Hyperbaric medicine is the branch of medicine in which clinical therapies are delivered in pressurized vessels containing prescribed barometric pressures of gases such as air or oxygen.
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