by HBOT News | Dec 1, 1991 | Spinal Cord Injuries
Abstract: Spinal cord injury (SCI) may result from decompression sickness associated with sport and commercial diving. Decompression sickness is caused by the formation of gas bubbles in the vessels and tissues secondary to a reduction in ambient pressure. A complete...
by HBOT News | Dec 1, 1990 | Spinal Cord Injuries
Abstract: A 74-yr-old man was scheduled for the biopsy of prostatic tumor under spinal anesthesia. Preoperative serologic test for syphilis was highly positive. Spinal anesthesia was performed in the sitting position, and 2 ml of hyperbaric Neo-percamine S (a mixture...
by HBOT News | Feb 1, 1984 | Spinal Cord Injuries
Abstract: Spinal Cord Injury patients are liable to develop osteomyelitis mostly by extension from pressure ulcers. In 2055 records reviewed in the Long Beach Spinal Cord Injury Service of the Veterans Administration Medical Center, the incidence was found to be 4.3...
by HBOT News | Feb 1, 1984 | Chronic Wounds
Abstract: Spinal Cord Injury patients are liable to develop osteomyelitis mostly by extension from pressure ulcers. In 2055 records reviewed in the Long Beach Spinal Cord Injury Service of the Veterans Administration Medical Center, the incidence was found to be 4.3...
by HBOT News | Oct 1, 1983 | Rheumatoid Arthritis
Abstract: The Girdlestone procedure which originally was developed for the treatment of tuberculosis of the hip has found a place in the management of septic hip arthritis and osteomyelitis secondary to pressure sores in spinal cord injury and other myelopathies....
