Hyperbaric Oxygenation in the Treatment of Grave Decompression Sickness

Hyperbaric oxygen pre-breathe modifies the outcome of decompression sickness.

Deep sea divers, aviators and astronauts are at risk of decompression sickness when the ambient pressure reductions exceed a critical threshold. Venous bubbles associated with decompression sickness have the potential to react with the vascular membrane and adjacent blood products, eliciting an inflammatory cascade. Preventive measures usually involve careful decompression procedures to avoid o...

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment reduced the lung injury of type II decompression sickness.

OBJECTIVE To detect the ultrastructural changes in rabbits with type II decompression sickness (DCS), and study the therapeutic effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO). METHODS Twenty-seven male New Zealand rabbits were randomly divided equally into the DCS group, HBO treatment group and control group. Experimental models of each group were prepared. Lung apex tissues were harvested to prepare par...

Treatment of 137 Cases of Decompression Sickness.

During the course of the last decade the incidence of decompression sickness within the Royal Navy has markedly increased. Whereas in the past such cases were largely the result of accident or negligence and fortunately rare, the testing of new techniques and tables has produced sufficient material to make some analysis of the various methods of treatment worth while. This paper consists of sum...

[Hyperbaric oxygenation in the combined treatment of acute kidney failure].

The paper presents the review of the treatment performed in 183 patients with acute renal failure caused by trauma, myorenal syndrome, surgical, obstetric and urological lesions. All the patients underwent hemodialysis. The majority of the patients manifested hypoxia due to pulmonary edema and abnormal central and visceral hemodynamics, anemia resultant from blood loss and suppression of hemopo...

[Analysis of cases of decompression sickness treated by hyperbaric oxygenation at the Polish Army Center for the Training of Divers and Frogmen in the summer of 1983].