Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay Building on previous articles about emergency medicine, severe blood loss, and even the article telling of experiments done in the 1950's by It Borema et al, in which they removed the haemoglobin from piglets, only to have them survive in a hyperbaric environment (covered in the article LIFE WITHOUT BLOOD), today's science… Continue reading Hyperbaric Oxygenation and Severe Anemia and Low Haemoglobin Count
Photo by Chris LeBoutillier on Pexels.com Of the three indicated and accepted conditions for routine treatment this one is the most confusing in how it’s treated. The condition must be acute before HBOT is indicated and commissioned for use in the UK. In other parts of the world health departments are less reluctant and it's… Continue reading HBOT for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay For the purposes of this discussion HBOT is "Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy", and mHBOT is "Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy". It does not mean "Medium Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy", this is a play on the meaning of the label and how it relates directly to dosage. The differentiation between these two applications comes down to… Continue reading Dosage: HBOT and mHBOT
Photo by Skitterphoto on Pexels.com Departing a little from complimentary therapy applications today, we discuss diving and flying. Since hyperbaric technologies are in fact diving technologies, and diving accidents and illnesses are treated in hyperbaric chambers, it makes for an interesting sojourn. Remembering of course that in therapeutic treatments (diving or otherwise), we breathe pure… Continue reading Flying and Diving – A Sojourn Into Physics and Physiology
Image by analogicus from Pixabay Today's science bit comes courtesy of our overview document. More specifically the chapter which covers aspects of the above title, but also thanks to the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) themselves, and their article entitled: "Arterial Inefficiencies: Central Retinal Artery Occlusion". But before a finger gets pointed for misquoting anyone, the UHMS… Continue reading Sight: Age Related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy and Central Retinal Ocular Occlusion
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first steps taken on the moon by some phenomenal human beings, below is an excerpt from our overview. Hyperbaric chambers and space technology are, in almost every way the same technologies. Sealed environments with controllable and manageable environmental conditions common to both. In… Continue reading Space Tech and Hyperbaric Tech: Technological Cousins
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com In 1959 a study was published in the Journal of cardiovascular surgery by a researcher and surgeon Dr Ite Borema. The brief synopsis to this is that in an experiment, researchers replaced the blood in pigs with ringers lactate solution and plasma, thus removing almost all the haemoglobin. Certainly they… Continue reading Life Without Blood
By: Hayden Dunstan Covered in more detail in the paper entitled “Hyperbaric Oxygenation and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Treatment – An Overview”, available for download on the website, sports injury and its associated complications can be relieved greatly and recovery can be accelerated with the help of HBOT. Swelling: As described under the heading ‘Oxygen… Continue reading Benefits of HBOT for Sports Injury
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