In an emergency, life support can be provided during recompression or hyperbaric oxygen therapy using very basic equipment, provided the equipment is hyperbaric-compatible and the clinicians have appropriate experience. For hyperbaric critical care to be provided safely on a routine basis, however, a great deal of preparation and specific equipment is needed, and relatively few facilities have ...

Results are reported using hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) in 122 patients with strokes due to thrombosis, both acute and completed. HBO is used as adjunctive treatment and three appears to be justification for a controlled study to delineate the treatment further. The authors believe it is essential to treat patients with stroke at 1.5 to 2 atmospheres absolute (ATA).

The effects of hyperbaric oxygen (at 3 atmospheres absolute) on uteroplacental and fetal circulations were studied in pregnant ewes near term. The ewe was given spinal anesthesia, the fetus was marsupialized to the abdominal walls to protect the umbilical circulation, and the fetal head was covered with a saline-filled glove to prevent breathing. During hyperbaric oxygenation, maternal arterial...

Печёночно клеточная недостаточность не только ос ложняет большинство заболеваний печени, но и является час тым спутником таких патологических состояний, как сепсис, шок, перитонит и постреанимационная болезнь [1—3]. Несмо тря на то, что в её основе лежит нарушение участия печени в пигментном, углеводном, азотистом и белковом обмене [1], более значимая роль в её развитии принадлежит нарушению де...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prophylactic potential of hyperbaric oxygenation treatment and the timing of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy for cyclophosphamide-(CYP) induced cystitis in rats. Forty male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 5 groups. Four groups received a single dose of CYP (100 mg/kg.) intraperitoneally (i.p.) at the same time (group 1 served as the control). Gro...

cardiovascular surgery, pulmonary embolism remains the most serious postoperative complication. All efforts should be directed at eliminating the factors that contribute to its incidence. Recently, there has been a revival of interest in its treatment after Cooley and BealI1 reported the first successful pulmonary embolectomy using cardiopulmonary bypass in 1961. Around the same time hyperbaric...

BACKGROUND Cancer is a common disease and radiotherapy is one well-established treatment for some solid tumours. Hyperbaric oxygenation therapy (HBOT) may improve the ability of radiotherapy to kill hypoxic cancer cells, so the administration of radiotherapy while breathing hyperbaric oxygen may result in a reduction in mortality and recurrence. OBJECTIVES To assess the benefits and harms of ...

Acute peripheral arterial occlusion may lead to gangrene, with loss of parts of arms and legs. Three infants with disseminated intravascular clotting developed dark red discoloration of the tips of fingers and toes which progressed proximally. Repeated hyperbaric oxygenation treatments caused regression of the demarcation line and further progression of necrosis stopped.