Hyperbaric

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Definition:
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy uses a special chamber, sometimes called a pressure chamber, to allow a person to get high levels of oxygen in the blood.
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Definition
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy uses a special chamber, sometimes called a pressure chamber, to allow a patient to breathe 100% oxygen while the pressure in the chamber is higher than one atmosphere absolute (atm abs).
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Hyperbaric oxygenation is an increased amount of oxygen in organs and tissues resulting from the administration of oxygen in a compression chamber at an ambient pressure greater than 1 atmosphere.
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Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is used in the treatment of several different conditions. This article lists some of these and how the therapy works.
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Hyperbaric chamberA sealed compartment in which patients are exposed to controlled pressures up to three times normal atmospheric pressure.
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hyperbaric
Characterized by greater-than-normal pressure. Hyperbaric oxygen is a therapeutic treatment designed to increase blood oxygen by delivering oxygen in a chamber room with greater-than-normal pressure.
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hyperbaric oxygen
Oxygen that is at an atmospheric pressure higher than the pressure at sea level. Breathing hyperbaric oxygen to enhance the effectiveness of radiation therapy is being studied.
hypercalcemia (hye-per-kal-SEE-mee-a) ...
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- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been used successfully in some other countries (outside the U.S.).
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The key to treatment is the use of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which is a high-pressure chamber in which the patient receives 100% oxygen.
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hyperbaric oxygen (oxygen at greater than normal atmospheric pressure) given in a special chamber to deliver high levels of oxygen to frostbitten tissues.
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Intravenous antibiotics, hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Internal gangrene
Interrupted blood flow to abdominal organs, such as the intestines, gallbladder or appendix.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy with laryngectomy patients (people who have had an operation to remove all or part of the larynx (voice box))
Massage therapy for cancer-related fatigue ...
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If the organism is determined to be an oxygen-avoiding bacteria (anaerobe) the patient may be placed in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a device in which the patient is exposed to 100% oxygen at several atmospheres of pressure.
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Decompression sickness can be seen in:
scuba divers who rise too quickly after diving in deep water
those who go quickly from a lower to a higher altitude
those who exit from a high pressure or hyperbaric chamber ...
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