Abstract: This article reviews the current evidence in using hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in burn wounds. There is also separate consideration of diabetic foot burns and a protocol for use of HBOT in a specific case. The challenges of using HBOT in an acute burn...
HBOT Research
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Health Technology Assessment.
Abstract: About 15% to 25% of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer. These wounds are often resistant to healing; therefore, people with diabetes experience lower limb amputation at about 20 times the rate of people without diabetes. If an ulcer does not heal...
Subcellular Energetics and Metabolism: Potential Therapeutic Applications.
Abstract: Part I of this review discussed the similarities between embryogenesis, mammalian adaptions to hypoxia (primarily driven by hypoxia-inducible factor-1 [HIF-1]), ischemia-reperfusion injury (and its relationship with reactive oxygen species), hibernation,...
HOPON (Hyperbaric Oxygen for the Prevention of Osteoradionecrosis): a randomised controlled trial of hyperbaric oxygen to prevent osteoradionecrosis of the irradiated mandible: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
Abstract: Osteoradionecrosis of the mandible is the most common serious complication of radiotherapy for head and neck malignancy. For decades, hyperbaric oxygen has been employed in efforts to prevent those cases of osteoradionecrosis that are precipitated by dental...
Clinical Trial – Dexmedetomidine and Laparoscopic Surgery
Conventionally General anaesthesia remains the choice for the majority of open abdominal
surgical procedures, and regional anaesthesia is preferred only for patients who are at high
risk under general anaesthesia . The main reason for selecting spinal anaesthesia as the
first choice for laparoscopic cases was its advantages over general anaesthesia which include
uniform total muscle relaxation, a conscious patient, economical, relatively uneventful
recovery, pain free early postoperative period and the protection from potential
complications of general anaesthesia. The main debatable point, however, seems to be the
status of respiratory parameters among the two modes of anaesthesia during laparoscopic
surgery. In this context it can be stated that spontaneous physiological respiration during
spinal anaesthesia would always be better than an assisted respiration as in general
anaesthesia.
The pneumo-peritoneum induced rise in intra-abdominal pressure including pressure on the
diaphragm and carbon dioxide induced peritoneal irritation are the factors to be considered
Identification and control of a multiplace hyperbaric chamber.
Abstract: This work presents the automation of a multiplace hyperbaric chamber. It includes the system modeling, identification, controller calculation and system validation. With the proposed approach a good pressure profile tracking and repeatability are achieved....
Use of a Tilting Orthopedic Fracture Table to Facilitate Proper Patient Positioning During Intrathecal Neurolysis With Hyperbaric Phenol: A Case Report.
Abstract: We describe the case of a 41-year-old woman with metastatic cervical cancer and a large mass eroding into the pelvis and left lumbosacral plexus. The patient had intractable left lower extremity pain refractory to standard therapies, and she elected to...
Effect of Intrathecally Administered Ketamine, Morphine, and Their Combination Added to Bupivacaine in Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Cancer Surgery a Randomized, Double-Blind Study.
Abstract: Effective postoperative pain control reduces postoperative morbidity. In this study, we investigated the effects of intrathecal morphine, ketamine, and their combination with bupivacaine for postoperative analgesia in major abdominal cancer surgery....
Reducing Postsurgical Wound Complications: A Critical Review.
Abstract: To provide information on risk factors for surgical site infections (SSIs) and actions to mitigate that risk. This continuing education activity is intended for surgeons, surgical teams, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses with...
Rescue vitrectomy with blocked artery massage and bloodletting for branch retinal artery occlusion.
Abstract: A 61-year-old male suffered from sudden blurred vision and superior visual field defect oculus dexter. His vision was counting fingers at 20 cm. Fundoscopy demonstrated inferior pale retina and a large embolus located at the proximal inferior retinal artery....