tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30999672382287759602024-03-12T18:03:57.407-04:00O2.0 - hyperbaric oxygen therapy newsO2.0, the HyperbaricLink blog, brings you the latest news about hyperbaric oxygen therapy medical research, treatment centers, practices, and equipment. HyperbaricLink is the web's independent guide to evidence-based hyperbaric oxygen therapy.AJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18428825782460230669noreply@blogger.comBlogger442125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-70080561935683044452017-03-23T14:45:00.000-04:002017-03-23T14:45:07.352-04:00Hyperbaric Oxygen for Ulcerative Colitis: Evidence UpdateSometimes a good small study is enough to merit serious attention, help prove a concept, and inspire others to expand the investigation.
The last and only time we reported on hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the subject was a 2012 systematic review of the medical literature. IBD, or chronic inflammation of the digestive tract, includes Crohn's disease Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com01 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA43.67537 -72.27399609999997719.787785 -113.58259009999998 67.562955 -30.965402099999977tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-65145575775092988392017-03-13T07:00:00.000-04:002017-03-13T07:00:23.239-04:00It may have seemed quiet around here…...but we’ve been busy working.
HyperbaricLink has been getting bigger and better since it first appeared on the web in June of 2009. Just a couple weeks ago we rolled out the HyperbaricLink Registry, a major development effort we've been working on for months.
The Registry enables hyperbaric treatment centers to provide detailed, updated information about themselves using an efficient AJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18428825782460230669noreply@blogger.com0Cambridge, MA, USA42.3736158 -71.109733542.3266968 -71.1904145 42.420534800000006 -71.0290525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-5974317361480783432013-12-06T16:57:00.000-05:002013-12-07T13:45:43.137-05:00Detecting Traumatic Brain Injuries in the Living
At present, a definitive determination that a person has suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) can only be made after death. The accumulation of tau proteins that result from traumatic brain injury (TBI) are not detectable by currently accepted brain imaging techniques.
Work currently being done by scientists at UCLA may change that. As reported today by MIT AJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18428825782460230669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-41448687858347139332013-11-26T08:16:00.000-05:002013-11-26T08:16:41.605-05:00Update: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
We have updated and upgraded our traumatic brain injury (TBI) page. In randomized clinical trials hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of death in patients with traumatic brain injury, but there is little evidence survivors enjoy good outcomes. Research results this year were disappointing, prompting us to lower our Evidence Index scoreRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-52206547761404314022013-11-24T07:41:00.000-05:002013-11-26T08:00:22.362-05:00New on HyperbaricLink: Sudden Hearing Loss
Today we have added sensorineural hearing loss to our Diseases and Conditions section. Nerve-related deafness is a sudden or rapidly progressive loss of hearing related to problems with the inner ear and the nerves that connect the ear to the brain. Researchers have confirmed a strong association with circulatory problems or lack of oxygen in the inner ear. As many as 20 per 100,000 Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-15756194821786122642013-11-22T07:08:00.000-05:002013-11-26T07:33:43.985-05:00Update: Hyperbaric Oxygen for Autism
We have updated and upgraded our Autism page. Finding scant evidence for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, we now provide more helpful links to patient and clinical resources, to the 2009 Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) position paper, and to the indispensable 2011 book, Thinking Person's Guide to Autism. Here's hoping you find our new page nearly as thoughtful.
Hyperbaric oxygen Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-28393064455026285382012-08-06T21:08:00.001-04:002012-08-07T13:52:37.036-04:00Six Questions with Dr. Jeffrey Niezgoda
President, American College of Hyperbaric Medicine (ACHM)
Medical Director, The Center for
Comprehensive Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, St. Luke's Medical Center, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
President and Chief Medical Officer of
WebCME.net
Associate Professor and Hyperbaric
Consultant, Medical College of Wisconsin
MD from the Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-30330602157672901352012-07-18T07:30:00.000-04:002012-07-18T09:14:45.135-04:00Hypoxia and Bends in F-22 Raptor Pilots: USAF and Congressional Inquiry Update
In the wake of new incidents of pilot hypoxia and bends in the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet, CNN senior national security producer Mike Mount has filed an excellent report this week on the status of ongoing investigations. Choice quotation:
Last month, the two members of Congress released numbers by the Air
Force that showed pilots flying the F-22 Raptor reported illness from
oxygen Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-3157894848750218862012-07-17T04:34:00.000-04:002012-07-17T04:38:54.099-04:00One Last Post Re: Success with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Necrotizing Infections
Before we take a break from this topic, here's one more quick but inspiring story about success with hyperbaric oxygen therapy for deadly soft tissue infections, or flesh-eating disease, sometimes including gas gangrene or bone infections.
Nurse manager Amy Pakes, RN, MS, says Nassau University Medical Center, a NuHealth hospital in East Meadow, New York, sees a dozen
cases of necrotizing Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-13736990568860537832012-07-16T12:02:00.001-04:002012-07-17T04:35:42.236-04:00HBOT for Necrotizing Fasciitis: South Carolina Mother of Twins Going Home with All Her LimbsLana Kuykendall, this year's "other" high-profile victim of necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating disease, underwent extensive hyperbaric oxygen therapy as part of her remarkable recovery at Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. She also suffered with sepsis and endured more than 20 surgical procedures. Now the mother of twins born in May is heading home with all her limbs.Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-64490686944728091522012-07-15T17:30:00.000-04:002012-07-16T12:02:59.639-04:00The Twitter Files: Hyperbaric Chamber Photo from the Penn Medicine ArchivesIn our daily search for hyperbaric news we enjoyed this 1968 photo from hyperbaric medicine at Penn (University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia):
Hyperbaric chamber construction at the John Morgan Building in June, 1968 [pic]. Program info: pennmedicine.org/hyperbaric/ twitter.com/PennArchives/s…
— Penn Archives (@PennArchives) June 25, 2012
Like so many others, Penn Medicine's Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-4048223670713495282012-07-13T08:35:00.001-04:002012-07-13T08:35:06.461-04:00Hyperbaric Chamber Manufacturers: Meet PBUCHThank you, Internet, for bringing a new containerized hyperbaric rescue system to our attention. Add PBUCH S.A., out of Poland, to HyperbaricLink's list of other manufacturers of hyperbaric chambers. PBUCH is short for Przedsiebiorstwo Budowy Urzadzen Chlodniczych, or "Company Plant Engineering," as near as we can tell. Designed to treat decompression sickness (DCS) and for training of submarine Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-56422551989021889742012-07-12T07:30:00.000-04:002012-07-17T04:35:42.268-04:00Necrotizing Fasciitis Postcript: Aimee Copeland in Rehab, Set to Return Home Next Month
The young woman we wrote about in May has won her life-or-death battle against necrotizing fasciitis or flesh-eating disease. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy played some role—we don't know the details—in Aimee Copeland's recovery from a rare and serious bacterial infection. In June her family released a photo of her enjoying some outdoor time and preparing for rehabilitation. Yesterday they announcedRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-10207238432844052722012-07-11T14:59:00.000-04:002012-07-11T14:59:24.161-04:00Alzheimer's News: Researchers Discover Protective Mutation That Slows Beta Amyloid Buildup
Gina Kolata in the New York Times serves up a fine explanation of an important new Alzheimer's study. The study was published today in Nature [doi:10.1038/nature11283] and conducted by a predominantly Scandinavian group representing Genentech and deCODE genetics, based in Reykjavik, Iceland. The research confirms that the buildup of beta amyloid drives the disease and identifies a rare gene Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-90461669929654541282012-07-07T10:30:00.000-04:002012-07-11T15:57:06.536-04:00Sea Turtle Returns to Sea After Successful HBOT for OsteomyelitisThis just in from Florida. How can we not report it? What else but HBOT works for osteomyelitis (bone infection)? How can you not watch? Go, Kahuna, go!
Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-2156964894896949332012-06-26T12:24:00.000-04:002012-07-11T12:40:06.930-04:00New Name, Same Day and Time for Monthly Wound Wire Webcast
Episode 7 of the highly edutaining Wound Rounds LIVE webcast, newly renamed Wound Wire, airs tomorrow 27 June 2012 at 11 AM Central. Co-hosted by Dr Jeffrey A. Niezgoda and Sharon Baranoski, and powered by WebCME, the free webcast streams live on the last Wednesday of every month and covers new technologies, products, and
devices, clinical
insight, new procedures, and robust literature Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-36420349130729016702012-06-22T07:30:00.000-04:002012-07-11T15:42:48.482-04:00Hyperbaric Oxygen for Autism: New Rossignol Literature Review Does Not Impress
In May we cheered Ahmad Ghanizadeh's new systematic review of the published clinical evidence on hyperbaric oxygen for autism. Ghanizadeh encouraged further study but found scant evidence to support practice. This month another paper, reviewing the same body of medical literature, and published in the same online open-source journal Medical Gas Research [doi:10.1186/2045-9912-2-16], arrives at Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-7014642178076378722012-06-20T06:30:00.000-04:002012-07-11T12:57:26.835-04:00Full Program Now Available for Download: 45th UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting
The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) is holding its 45th Annual Scientific Meeting this week, June 21-23, in Phoenix, Arizona. We sorely regret we are not able to attend again this year. Visit the UHMS website to download the Schedule Overview or a PDF of the Full Program including scientific abstracts. Always required reading for everyone interested in evidence-based hyperbaric Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-67572991390136505282012-06-14T05:30:00.000-04:002012-06-14T05:30:00.644-04:00Freezer Malfunction at Harvard Tissue Bank a Setback for Autism and Other Brain Research
A freezer and alarm failure, causing severe damage to one-third of the frozen brain tissue specimens stored at one Harvard Brain Bank center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, a collection owned by Autism Speaks, is a real setback to autism research and a wake-up call to other brain banks. The study of donated brains drives some of the most important research into autism, Alzheimer'sRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-19914994245872559392012-06-13T17:52:00.001-04:002012-06-13T17:53:53.433-04:00Summer Reading List: Young Men and Fire, by Norman Maclean
Across the western US today thousands of firefighters battle 19 active wildfires, on the ground, from the air, under thankfully improving weather conditions. Our thoughts with them. And to our readers once more we recommend Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean (University of Chicago Press, 1992). It's so much more than a gripping history of the 1949 Mann Gulch tragedy, in which a crew of elite Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-78384470847448973452012-06-12T07:30:00.000-04:002012-06-13T18:48:31.063-04:00Hyperbaric Oxygen for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): Systematic Review of the Medical Literature
We are loath to recommend the work of such a controversial figure as Dr Daniel Rossignol. But his new systematic review and analysis of the medical literature on hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for inflammatory bowel disease is very helpful indeed.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the chronic inflammation of all or part of the digestive tract, includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-84453488382920762852012-06-07T09:04:00.002-04:002012-06-07T09:07:00.619-04:00Diabetic Ulcers without Optimal Glycemic Control: New Study Concludes HBOT Should Not Be Delayed
Physicians treating wounds in patients with diabetes often delay hyperbaric oxygen therapy until the patient has attained optimal blood sugar levels. A new multicenter, prospective cohort study, presented 24 May 2012 in Philadelphia at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinoligists, suggests that, in patients with diabetic ulcers of the lower extremities, the Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-91080701129750582562012-06-06T12:10:00.001-04:002012-06-06T12:10:50.625-04:00In the News: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON)?
Today the National Hyperbaric Centre of Dublin, Ireland, reports success in using hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to save the eyesight of a young man with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), a mitochondrial disease that usually causes a loss of central
vision within two to eight weeks. Eric Lokko, pictured here, began losing his eyesight at age 12, started HBOT at 14, and can see well Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-33798417072620138772012-06-05T12:18:00.001-04:002012-06-05T12:22:11.332-04:00Johns Hopkins Medicine: About as Good as Online HBOT Info Gets (and That's Not a Compliment)
Should you somehow manage to find the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy page, somewhere under Dermatology, in the Johns Hopkins online Health Library, you will be rewarded with a pretty okay overview. You will learn that HBOT helps wound healing, prevents "reperfusion injury" (nice), blocks harmful bacteria, strengthens the immune system, and encourages the formation of new connective tissue and skin Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099967238228775960.post-75920162456366258362012-06-04T07:30:00.000-04:002012-06-05T12:34:29.011-04:00UHMS Accredits Hyperbaric Medicine at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia
The Hyperbaric Medicine Service at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Georgia, has received accreditation from the Undersea and
Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). Fort Gordon is home to the US Army Signal Corp. The military-only center is not open to the public. About UHMS accreditation, medical director Michael Madsen, MD, said it:
... signifies Eisenhower Army Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01465026610466992933noreply@blogger.com0