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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has been used for the better part of two centuries. Search our arhives below for past HBOT news and research or scroll down for the latest.
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[Evaluation and assessment of the health care process in patients with carbon monoxide poisoning in Germany].
Abstract: Carbon monoxide poisoning (COP) is the most common cause for poisoning by inhalation in Germany. In the past 8 years, a marked increase in the number of COP-related deaths has been registered nationwide. A national German guideline is...
Prevalence and outcome of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia diagnosed under veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a retrospective nationwide study.
Abstract: Thrombocytopenia is a frequent and serious adverse event in patients treated with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) for refractory cardiogenic shock. Similarly to postcardiac surgery patients, heparin-induced...
Hyperbaric oxygen affects endothelial progenitor cells proliferation in vitro.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen is a clinical treatment that contributes to wound healing by increasing fibroblasts proliferation, collagen synthesis, and production of growth factors, inducing angiogenesis and inhibiting antimicrobial activity. It...
Hyperbaric oxygen with cord blood transplants: Filling the donor gap.
Abstract: Aljitawi OS, Paul S, Ganguly A, Lin TL, Ganguly S, Vielhauer G, Capitano ML, Cantilena A, Lipe B, Mahnken JD, Wise A, Berry A, Singh AK, Shune L, Lominska C, Abhyankar S, Allin D, Laughlin M, McGuirk JP, Broxmeyer HE. (Division of...
Sirt1 mediates improvement of isoflurane-induced memory impairment following hyperbaric oxygen preconditioning in middle-aged mice.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) preconditioning (PC) has been suggested as a feasible method to provide neuroprotection from postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). However, whether HBO-PC can ameliorate cognitive deficits induced by...
Use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in pediatric neuro-oncology: a single institutional experience.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been utilized as adjunctive treatment of CNS tumors and for radiation necrosis (RN) with reported success. The safety and efficacy in pediatric patients is less understood. Seven patients (ages 10-23...
L’oxygénothérapie hyperbare.
Abstract: Lefort (2018). Revue de l'infirmiere, ;67(242):13. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29907168
[Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a little-known discipline].
Abstract: There are two types of indications of hyperbaric oxygen therapy: it may be used as an emergency treatment in certain acute pathologies or as a therapy for chronic long-term pathologies. The indications are regularly updated and assessed...
[Hyperbaric medicine and emergency medicine, an example of decompression sickness in diving].
Abstract: One of the reasons for the emergency use of a hyperbaric chamber concerns a diving-related accident. Decompression sickness is potentially serious; it requires urgent treatment and hyperbaric recompression. It is caused by the formation...