OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY)- Doctors are looking for new and less invasive ways to help patients as COVID-19 continues to spread across the state. One of those new treatments is happening at Opelousas General Hospital. It’s called hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Dr. Kelly...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) might be the best kept secret in mainstream medicine. It’s typically reserved for such unfortunate happenings as carbon monoxide poisoning, treating divers with the “bends” (a.k.a. decompression sickness), and to accelerate wound...
Overview of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy HBOT treatment for COVID-19 by Dr. Paul G Harch. Protocol derived from Spanish Flu HBOT experience in 1918 and COVID-19 HBOT experience in China with analysis and considerations. Purportedly, hyperbaric physicians in Pakistan,...
Jean-Eric Blatteau, MD, PhD of Sainte Anne Military Teaching Hospital in Toulon, France has begun a new clinical trial to study the treatment of COVID-19 patients using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Several patients with hypoxaemic SARS-CoV2 pneumonia were...
Dr. Jeffery S Kuo is the Lead Investigator of the latest clinical trial studying the treatment of COVID-19 patients with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. The study will be based out of Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Patients who meet...
Opelousas General has been using hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat patients with COVID-19 with some success.Last week, Dr. Kerry Thibodeaux, Board Certified in General Surgery and Wound Care and Dr. Amer Raza, Board Certified in Pulmonology and Critical...
Thousands of grounded aircraft could be transformed into potentially life-saving hyperbaric oxygen chambers to treat COVID-19 patients with airport departure lounges used as wards. This is the vision of Cambridge life-support system specialist Lungfish Dive Systems,...
NEW ORLEANS — A new and different way of treating patients with COVID-19 may soon be studied in New Orleans. Monday, a panel of doctors met to decide if the study, treating patients in oxygen chambers, can move forward. The idea dates back more than a century....
Dr. Jason Sonners of HBOT USA discusses Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Vs. Ventilators for Respiratory Virus as a response to Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell YouTube video comparing COVID-19 symptoms to high altitude sickness. .
I am a Critical Care physician trained in Hyperbaric Medicine. Sadly, my ICU is currently full of critically ill patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, most of them intubated. My colleagues and I have been caring for them for several days, so I have some insight into the...
