by HBOT News | Jan 1, 1990 | Anaerobic Bacterial Infection
Abstract: The treatment of synergistic bacterial soft tissue infections includes usually surgical debridements and radical excisions of necrotic tissues, antibiotic therapy and volumic resuscitation. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy did not prove efficient in these...
by HBOT News | Jan 1, 1990 | Necrotizing Fasciitis
Abstract: The treatment of synergistic bacterial soft tissue infections includes usually surgical debridements and radical excisions of necrotic tissues, antibiotic therapy and volumic resuscitation. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy did not prove efficient in these...
by HBOT News | Sep 30, 1989 | Necrotizing Fasciitis
Abstract: We present nine patients with necrotizing fasciitis. Two of them had Fourniers gangrene. Predisposing factors included diabetes mellitus, alcohol and drug abuse. Local signs were redness, swelling and pain rapidly followed by fever and deterioration in the...
by HBOT News | Jul 1, 1989 | Cancer
Abstract: Of 8 patients with symptoms of advanced cystitis due to pelvic radiation treated with hyperbaric oxygen 7 are persistently improved during followup. All 6 patients treated for gross hematuria requiring hospitalization have been free of symptoms for an...
by HBOT News | May 1, 1989 | Chronic Heart Failure
Abstract: The study performed in 54 elderly patients with first and second degree chronic heart failure (CHF) during hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) has revealed normalization of plasma renin activity, possibly, associated with improved renal blood flow. HBO also...