HBOT News & Research
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is increasingly appearing in the news and new research as a treatment for a variety of conditions involving inflammation. Use the search or select an article below to keep up to date on the most recent HBOT News.
Recent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) News
Successful treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen.
Abstract: This report describes the results of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in 10 patients with radiation-induced cystitis. Severe macroscopic hematuria was present in all patients and was resistant to current therapy. Previously 8 patients had been...
[Current methods of pathogenetic therapy of infectious-allergic polyradiculoneuritis].
Abstract: This is a survey of the experience in using corticosteroids, plasmapheresis, immunodepressants, hyperbaric oxygenation, laser and magnetotherapy in treating the infectious-allergic Guillain-Barre polyradiculoneuritis. The indications and...
Is it any good? The evaluation of therapy by participants in a clinical trial.
Abstract: Research into patients' perspectives on treatments, in concentrating on their compliance with medically prescribed regimens, have taken bio-medicine's evaluation of therapeutic efficacy and benefit for granted. This paper suggests that...
Management of perineal necrotizing fasciitis (Fournier’s gangrene).
Abstract: Eleven cases of perineal necrotizing fasciitis were treated in the Department of Surgery, University of Turku, Finland. In 10 cases the diagnosis was made on the basis of the fulminating progression of the infection to scrotal gangrene,...
The use of adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen in treatment of orthopedic infections and problem wounds: an overview and case reports.
Abstract: We summarize indications, contraindications, and therapeutic guidelines for the use of adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) in problem wounds and selected orthopaedic infections. Three typical cases that all were successfully...
[Hyperbaric oxygenation: physical and physiological premises, clinical uses, review of the literature].
Abstract: The physic and physiologic principles regarding the mechanism of hyperbaric oxygen are referred. On the basis of the literature, the possible clinical applications of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in plastic surgery are reported. The Authors...
Toxic smoke inhalation.
Abstract: Hall, Kulig, Rumack, , , , , , (1989). Toxic smoke inhalation. The American journal of emergency medicine, 1989 Jan;7(1):121-2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2914036
The use of adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen in treatment of orthopedic infections and problem wounds: an overview and case reports.
Abstract: We summarize indications, contraindications, and therapeutic guidelines for the use of adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) in problem wounds and selected orthopaedic infections. Three typical cases that all were successfully...
Suspected cyanide poisoning in smoke inhalation: complications of sodium nitrite therapy.
Abstract: A 78 year old man was found comatose, apneic, and asystolic after closed-space smoke inhalation. He was successfully resuscitated to pulse and blood pressure at the scene. A cyanide component to the poisoning was suspected and two 300 mg...