TBI: Active-duty Servicemembers to Undergo HBOT Clinical Trials

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

TBI: Active-duty Servicemembers to Undergo HBOT Clinical Trials

Clinical investigators have begun enrolling 96 marines, sailors, and soldiers in a 10-week trial of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Sites include Camp Pendleton and Camp Lejeune Naval Hospitals and Fort Gordon and Fort Carson Army Hospitals. Read "Pure oxygen used in treating brain injuries" in the Marine Corps Times.

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