Explore our database on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research below.
Extivita maintains an extensive research & publication database for various diseases and therapies such as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Neurofeedback, Nutritional IV Therapy, Infrared Sauna, and Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy.
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Abstract: The authors evaluate in a retrospective fashion the factors influencing outcome in a large group of patients presenting with necrotizing soft tissue infections, and, based on this analysis, propose a plan for optimal care of such patients. In many smaller...
Abstract: A significant number of people are bitten by the brown recluse spider (BRS) each year. Medical treatment regimens are sometimes unsatisfactory and surgical intervention is often necessary to debride the necrotic wound. This case study reports the treatment...
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is associated with a risk of barotrauma to the middle ear. This prospective study of 82 patients undergoing long-term therapy for chronic conditions was designed to measure the incidence and severity of middle ear barotrauma....
Abstract: Despite advance radiotherapy techniques, long-term complications of radiation injury are still commonly seen. Acute effects are largely time dependent and can be controlled by alteration of therapy schedule. Chronic effects are dose dependent, and are...
Abstract: Loss of consciousness, a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, rightside weakness, and pneumomediastinum developed suddenly in a 13-year-old boy who had inhaled helium directly from a pressurized helium tank. His condition improved dramatically with hyperbaric...
Abstract: Sipahi, Damião, de Sousa, Barbutti, Trivellato, Esteves, D'Agostino, Laudanna (1996). Hyperbaric oxygen: a new alternative in the treatment of perianal Crohn's disease. Revista do Hospital das Clinicas,...
Abstract: A 43-year-old white man with advanced renal cell carcinoma and consequent paraplegia complained of the new onset of lancinating pain involving the right upper chest wall. This pain, which was superimposed on well-controlled chronic back pain and was...
Abstract: A 49-year-old female was admitted with chief complaint of fecaluria on March 4th 1993. A radiation therapy had been performed for uterocervical cancer 18 years ago. The small intestine and bladder was detected by DIP- and cystogram simultaneously. It was...
Abstract: Clinicians involved in the conservative care of chronic wounds have many treatment interventions from which to choose, including debridement/irrigation, dressings, pressure-relieving devices, hyperbaric or topically applied oxygen, whirlpool/pulsed lavage,...