Hyperbaric medicine unit, past, present and future.

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  • M Glover
چکیده

Roles The primary role of the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit is to provide treatment for any casualties that arise from military diving training at the Defence Diving School. Fortunately such casualties are infrequent but, since inexperience is associated with likelihood of a diving accident, the natural choice of location for a fixed facility is close to the diving training establishment. Another important role of the unit is to allow the diving medical officers at the Institute of Naval Medicine and the Submarine Escape Training Tank to acquire and to maintain competence in treatment of diving accidents. Although the hyperbaric medicine unit’s priority is treatment of diving disorders, the greater proportion of treatments administered are for a range of other urgent and elective disorders, typically selected from those approved by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (1) and listed below: • Air or Gas Embolism • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Complicated By Cyanide Poisoning • Clostridial Myositis and Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene) • Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome and Other Acute Traumatic Ischaemias • Decompression Illness • Arterial Insufficiencies: • Central Retinal Artery Occlusion • Enhancement of Healing In Selected Problem Wounds • Severe Anaemia • Intracranial Abscess • Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections • Osteomyelitis (Refractory) • Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis) • Compromised Grafts and Flaps General

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service

دوره 98 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012