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Opelousas General Using Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment in Fight Against COVID-19
Hyberbaric Oxygen Treatments have been used for years to treat issues such as anemia, bubbles of air in your blood vessels, and carbon monoxide, just to name a few (according to the Mayo Clinic).But now, it's being used in the fight...
New Clinical Trial: Compassionate Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Thomas E Serena, MD of the SerenaGroup, Inc. with the Wound Treatment Center at Opelousas General Hospital in Louisiana have begun a new clinical trial to study COVID-19 patients treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy under...
Using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Coronavirus Lung Infection: The time for more HBOT treatment and studies is now
Dr. Paul Harch shares his thoughts on off-label treatment of COVID-19 with HBOT as well as the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved protocol used for the study he is conducting with the Louisiana State University.For months, the...
Why Hyperbaric Oxygen for Coronavirus Works.
HBOT for coronavirus pneumonia and respiratory failure is now being applied to patients around the world clinically and in experimental trials. Dr. Harch explains how it works by answering the question "What is HBOT?" and showing that...
How to Do the Right Thing Ethically Regarding HBOT for COVID-19 Pneumonia
What is “Off-label” Use of HBOT?Hyperbaric oxygen chambers are medical devices that are cleared for marketing and use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 13 indications, based on a list originally compiled by the Undersea and...
ACHM Webinar-COVID-19 and HBOT: The science of COVID-19 and application of HBOT
Part 1 Part 2Dr. Harch reviews the Chinese experience of HBOT with COVID-19 infection based on extensive communication with the treating Chinese doctors and the evolution of his presentation of this information on the...
HBOT in a Tyson COVID-19 Outbreak, Part 4: I Can’t Stop Smiling
5th in a series of emails from a physician treating COVID-19 patients near the Tyson processing plant. Day 5: N = 10Significant for so many reasons. First, we have the patient volume to show HBOT is working. Second, the volume of...
HBOT in a Tyson COVID-19 Outbreak, Part 3
4th in a series of emails from a physician treating COVID-19 patients near the Tyson processing plant. N = 7 on Day 4Day 4 and we have started treatments on 7 patients.The day started poorly. At 8am I walked into the ICU, where 8...
HBOT in a Tyson COVID-19 Outbreak, Part 2: “It’s Incredible”
Second email from a physician treating COVID-19 patients near the Tyson processing plant.Day 2: We Haven’t Seen Anything Like This IllnessI would love to give details about how absolutely incredible my experience is in this city, but...