Weekly Web Roundup: 27 November 2010

We hope our readers in the United States are having a pleasant Thanksgiving holiday and that those elsewhere in the world are enjoying whatever non-stuffed-turkey-involved events are appropriate to their locale. The luxury of few days off has given us the opportunity to relight the boilers and get the weekly roundup moving again.

SCIENCE

Surgeons in the department of thoracic surgery, Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School, Samsun, Turkey, report in the December 2010 issue of The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon that a week of hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps healing of anastomosis surgery wounds after irradiation and resection of the trachea in an animal study.

Preliminary results from a 24-patient study in China suggest that hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be effective for improving recovery from erectile dysfunction after posterior urethral reconstruction.

Medscape Today provides a case report of a rare necrotizing infection involving an intraperitoneal rupture of an infected urachal cyst. Apparently, HBOT wasn't available in this case.

PRESS/BUSINESS

On December 10th, from noon to 1:00 pm, Dr Thomas Serena, medical director of the Snyder Institute for Vascular Health and Research, will discuss how the Snyder Institute is utilizing hyperbaric oxygen to prevent amputation in diabetics. His presentation is part of a free seminar at the Alle-Kiski Medical Center Hospital in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.

Check out this video tour of McMurdo General Hospital in Antarctica. Conducted by Major Greg Richert, flight surgeon, the tour includes the continent's hyperbaric chamber.

One of the miners who escaped from the Pike River mine in New Zealand after the initial explosion was treated with HBOT for carbon monoxide poisoning according to the New Zealand Herald.

Perry Baromedical has been selected to supply hyperbaric chambers to Restorix Health. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Restorix Health is a community-based center for advanced wound care affiliated with the Restorix Research Institute.

The story in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review on carbon monoxide poisoning reports numerous incidents and insight from Dr. Kevin S. O'Toole, director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's hyperbaric medicine department.

PATIENT STORIES

From the Twin Cities Pioneer Press comes a wonderful success story. The combined efforts of The Hennepin County Medical Center, an Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society Accredited Facility, and the renowned Mayo Clinic saved a woman's foot and even seem to have eliminated her migraine headaches. She's published a book and is donating the proceeds to hyperbaric research. Osteomyelitis, or bone infection, is one of the FDA-cleared conditions for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Migraine and other conditions await more research.

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Weekly Web Roundup: 5 September 2010

Greetings from the relaxing end of another predictably slow hyperbaric news week, as summer draws to a close and a nation rests up for more hard work. Here at HyperbaricLink we've taken this opportunity to tinker with a few features and functions. Please take another look around and let us hear your thoughts and ideas for the season ahead.

SCIENCE

Urologists in Athens, Greece, publishing in the July-August issue of Undersea Hyperbaric Medicine, note the spontaneous disappearance of a hydrocele (swollen scrotum) in the case of a patient treated with hyperbaric oxygen for decompression sickness. Bonus.

PRESS/BUSINESS

Florida Hospital Waterman, Tavares FL, was selected as a Center of Excellence, the only center in Florida to earn the recognition by Shared Health Services, Johnson City TN.

PATIENT STORIES

With time to kill in the hyperbaric chamber, for recovery from a concussion, Los Angeles Kings defenseman Willie Mitchell has found healing, clarity, and motivation for his return to hockey.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

Thank you, Green Bay Press-Gazette, for acquainting us with the new Wound Healing Center at Bellin Hospital, Green Bay WI, plus two "off-label" HBOT clinics: Green Bay Hyperbarics in Ashwaubenon and the Wisconsin Integrative Hyperbaric Center in Fitchburg.

Weatherford Regional Medical Center, Weatherford TX, unveils its new Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center.

We learn of the Wound Care Center at Good Samaritan Health System, Lebanon PA, by way of a newspaper story about a Marine recovering from a roadside bombing in Iraq.

HyperbaricLink adds Bucyrus Community Hospital, Bucyrus OH, to its list with the announcement of the hospital's welcome participation in the ACHM radionecrosis registry.

Walnridge Equine, Cream Ridge NJ, now offers veterinary HBOT, you know, like, for horses.

O2.O is the news blog of HyperbaricLink, the independent web guide to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Weekly Web Roundup: 29 August 2010

With this back-to-school installment of our regular weekend update we manage to find a few choice headlines from another pretty slow hyperbaric news week. Do you have any bulletins you would like us to post? Is your hyperbaric oxygen therapy facility listed (completely and accurately) in our treatment center directory? All you have to do is submit a comment below or contact us.

SCIENCE

A new clinical trial supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will use laser speckle imaging (LSI) technology to measure blood flow velocity at wound sites in patients receiving HBOT versus patients receiving standard care. The WoundImager device was developed by CW Optics, Seaford VA.

PATIENT STORIES

Last Sunday a SCUBA diver suffering the bends was saved with the nimble assistance of the SOS Hyperlite Hyperbaric Stretcher based at Health Centre of the Haute-Côte-Nord, Québec. The rescue marks the first Canadian use of the device.

Australian surfing great Joel "Parko" Parkinson does an interview from inside the hyperbaric chamber in which he's recovering from a badly cut foot.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

In adding Lorain Community Hospital, Lorain OH, to our files we discover 8 other facilities enjoying the innovative services of Cleveland-based Mobile Hyperbaric Centers, Inc.

A hyperbaric chamber at Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo MI, makes at least a photo appearance in a story on its parent group's financial success.

Jordan Hospital, Plymouth MA, opens a Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center, "the only hospital-based hyperbaric treatment chamber in the greater Plymouth and Cape Cod region."

More publicity, and the story of a woman recovering from radionecrosis, acquaints us with another location of Harrington Hospital, in Charlton MA, operating a wound care center in partnership with Diversified Clinical Services.

We learn of the wound healing center at Galesburg Cottage Hospital, Galesburg IL, with the granting of privileges to Sherwin Parungao, MD. The hospital operates the center in partnership with National Healing.

BodyNew MedSpa, Scottsdale AZ, invites its pampered clientele into maybe the coziest hard chamber ever photographed.

Bon Secours Charity Health System facilities in Suffern, Warwick, and Port Jervis NY all provide HBOT.

HyOx Medical Treatment Center adds to its Marietta location a new facility on the campus of Gwinnett Medical Center, Lawrenceville GA.

O_2.0 is the news blog of HyperbaricLink, the independent guide to hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment centers, physicians and clinicians, diseases and conditions.

Weekly Web Roundup: 21 August 2010

Another weekend and another handy wrap-up of the week's hyperbaric oxygen therapy news, and just about the volume we'd expect for late August. Please do send along any items that may have escaped our attention. We're only too happy to serve as a public relations outlet for the right HBOT business and science stories.

PRESS/BUSINESS

Munson Medical Center, Traverse City MI, lands some fine local TV coverage for its new Accelecare center.

ETC Biomedical Systems has received FDA 510k clearance for its O.S.C.A.R. computerized hyperbaric oxygen control system.

PATIENT STORIES

The parent(s) of a 7-year-old boy writes about his "journey out of autism," with the help of HBOT, on the Sasha's Recovery blog.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

Northwest Florida Community Hospital, Chipley FL, has opened a Wound Healing Institute with Innovative Healing Systems. Local television news coverage here.

Schuylkill Medical Center, Pottsville PA, has opened an Advanced Wound Center with Accelecare.

The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Tri-City Medical Center, Vista CA, comes to our attention upon being awarded Wound Care Facility of the Year at last month's 7th International Symposium in Irvine CA.

Fauquier Hospital, Warrenton VA, in June opened a wound center. Gotta love that name.

Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Grass Valley CA, last March opened a wound healing center.

Fremont Area Medical Center, Fremont NE, has opened a Center for Wound Healing with Diversified Clinical Services.

O2.O is the news blog of HyperbaricLink, the independent web guide to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Weekly Web Roundup: 14 August 2010

Join us here every weekend for a HyperbaricLink selection of HBOT news from around the web. Looking for something in particular? Use the tool in the upper left corner to search this blog. Missing a story you think we should have caught? Add your comment to the end of this post, or CLICK HERE to contact us with news, information, or ideas.

PRESS/BUSINESS

Oil industry expert Matthew Simmons, in a posthumous interview, speaks to The Maritime Executive about the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the role hyperbaric chambers played in the early days of offshore drilling.

Environmental Tectonics Corp, Southampton PA, takes steps to recover from financial difficulties with a buyback of Series E preferred shares and a key sale to a medical supplier in Hanoi, Vietnam.

A 33-year-old EMT in Texas died of carbon monoxide from a generator running in an ambulance parked in the station bay. The building didn't have a CO detector. Two colleagues were treated with hyperbaric oxygen and remain hospitalized.

Celebrity gossip factory TMZ and reps for Tim Tebow totally busted Pikes Peak Hyperbaric, Colorado Springs and Denver CO, for embellishing its story and doctoring photos of the mHBOT bag it's renting to the Denver Broncos QB sensation. Photoshop FAIL.

PATIENT STORIES

Sport Rider magazine goes into some depth covering motorcycle racer Randy De Puniet's swift recovery from a double leg fracture with the aid of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Marseilles, France.

A cancer survivor and young wife and mother of two journals about her HBOT experience at Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis MN, in the "This Is What It Means To Be Held, What It Means To Be Loved" blog.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

We learn of Portneuf Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, Pocatello ID, with its announcement of new medical director Dr Julio Vasquez.

The Advanced Wound Healing Center at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center, Springfield OR, opened December 2009 and just now catches our readership with the story of limb salvage for a 71-year-old man with a diabetic foot ulcer.

The Wound Care Institute at St Francis Hospital & Health Centers, headquartered in Indianapolis IN, apparently has a Mooresville location to add to our Beech Grove listing. Operations will be centralized at the system's new Indianapolis campus patient tower, scheduled to open in March 2011.

Healdsburg District Hospital, Healdsburg, Sonoma County CA, ballyhoos its new Northern California Wound Care center with an excellent HBOT primer and photo story in The Press Democrat.

Spokane Hyperbaric Center, Spokane WA, comes crashing to our attention with this over-the-top 30-second TV spot:



O2.o is the news blog of HyperbaricLink, the independent web guide to hyperbaric oxygen therapy, at www.hyperbariclink.com

Weekly Web Roundup: 8 August 2010

Keep tuning in to HyperbaricLink every weekend for tastefully selected headlines, even after such a slow hyperbaric news week as this.

PRESS/BUSINESS

Winnie Joanne Barefoot has been indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of bank, wire, mail, and Social Security fraud and ordered held by a judge of the US District Court in Baltimore. Barefoot owns Advanced Hyperbarics, which operates treatment centers in Millersville MD, Orlando FL, Jacksonville FL, and Bedford PA.

New Orleans Saints tight end Billy Miller, who owns the Elite Performance Factory in Westlake Village CA, spotlights hyperbaric therapy in his preseason publicity.

SCIENCE

Hepatitis-Central.com asks, "Is Hyperbaric Oxygen a Viable Therapy for Hepatitis C?" The author finds no direct evidence but cites (1) a Russian study that showed improved postoperative liver function in animals with chronic toxic hepatitis and (2) an ongoing University of Edinburgh study of HBOT in the treatment of alcoholic liver disease.

Investigators from the University of Nevada School of Medicine, studying rats and publishing in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, determine the nitric oxide mechanism by which hyperbaric oxygen inhibits ischemic reperfusion injury.

PATIENT STORIES

Firefighters in Oregon City OR rescued five mobile home residents and evacuated three to Providence Medical Center for hyperbaric oxygen treatment for smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

Light publicity acquaints us with Harrington Hospital, Southbridge MA, operating a wound care center in partnership with Diversified Clinical Services.

Weekly Web Roundup: 1 August 2010

So much noise and so little news worth your valuable time online, so every weekend the HyperbaricLink blog sifts it through and distills it down to the top hyperbaric medicine headlines.

SCIENCE

Studying the treatment of acute necrotizing pancreatitis in rats, researchers from Beijing, China, publishing in Canadian Journal of Surgery, conclude that hyperbaric oxygen combined with ulinastatin was more effective than either therapy alone.

A Medscape case study, "The Not-So-Acute Abdomen," includes a discussion of the advantages of hyperbaric oxygen in treating a 72-year-old man with abdominal pain diagnosed as pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis.

Brazilian surgeons investigating suture strength in colon repair for perotinis in rats, published in Acta Cirurgica Brasiliera, found no benefits with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

PRESS/BUSINESS

Hyperbaric for Life LLC (Phoenix AZ) received an FDA warning letter regarding violations in its manufacture of hyperbaric chamber Class III medical devices.

Tyco Valves and Controls (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) has invested in two hyperbaric chambers to test subsea equipment in simulated environments as deep as 3,000 m (9,842 ft).

Environmental Tectonics Corp (Southampton PA) has added former astronaut Winston Scott to its board of directors.

PATIENT STORIES

A woman bears witness to her "third go-round with cancer," including hyperbaric oxygen for delayed radiation injury, in the Breathing In Hope blog.

Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Marquez works hyperbarics into his training routine and wins his Saturday night bout against Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz by unanimous decision.

A father blogs about his newborn son's recovery from brain injury suffered during birth and their recent commencement of HBOT sessions.

Denver Broncos QB and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow uses HBOT in his grueling workout routine.

A woman blogs about her fight with endometrial cancer and HBOT treatment for delayed radiation injury.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital (Rockingham NC) grabs our attention with a 67-year-old woman's story of diabetic foot ulcers and limb salvage at its Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center. FirstHealth of the Carolinas also operates a wound center at its flagship Moore Regional Hospital (Pinehurst NC).

We learn of NJ-based Saint Barnabus Health Care System's wound centers at Clara Maass, Kimball, Monmouth, Beth Israel Newark, and Saint Barnabus with publicity surrounding the visit of congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen.

Weekly Web Roundup: 25 July 2010

Join us here every weekend (okay, so some weeks we get caught playing catch-up) for fresh hyperbaric oxygen therapy news from around the web and social networks.

SCIENCE

A retrospective study out of Turkey, published this week in European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, finds that HBOT combined with steroids was effective in the emergency treatment of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL).

PRESS/BUSINESS

Salt Lake Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine (Salt Lake City UT) has filed for Chapter 11 protection with the US Bankruptcy Court.

Forouz Jowkar joins the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico (Santa Fe NM).

Saskatchewan laments the loss of "the only privately owned hyperbaric chamber in the province" without describing the chamber or questioning its dubious history of service.

The Wound Care Institute at Lehigh Regional Medical Center (Lehigh Acres FL) boasts impressively high cure rates.

PATIENT STORIES

A 48-year-old "long-term pain survivor" and active leader in the CRPS/RSD community shares his HBOT experiences on the Pain Is A Four Letter Word blog.

A young wife tells of her husband's long recovery and hyperbaric oxygen treatments by Dr Paul Harch for IED brain injury and PTSD in the Wife Of A Wounded Soldier blog.

A 44-year-old woman enjoys success with HBOT for diabetic foot ulcers at Charlton Memorial Hospital (Fall River MA). Television news story here.

Harry Carson, former New York Giants linebacker and NFL Hall of Famer, gets HBOT for postconcussion syndrome at the PR savvy Hyperbaric Therapy USA (Newtown Square PA).

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps an 18-year-old with cerebral palsy achieve his dream of competing in the 2010 Special Olympics Summer Games in London, Ontario.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Tri-City Medical Center (Vista CA) comes to our attention with news it will open a second facility in Carlsbad CA this October.

St Joseph's Hospital (Chippewa Falls WI) has raised funds to open a wound care and hyperbaric medicine center with Diversified Clinical Services by the end of the year.

The story of a 3-year-old girl battling leukemia and flesh-eating bacterial infection draws our attention to the wound care services at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital (Fort Worth TX).

Paradise Valley Hospital (National City CA) offers wound healing and hyperbaric medicine services, new to us.

Clifton Springs Hospital & Clinic (Clifton Springs NY) offers HBOT with wound care services.

Weekly Web Roundup: 18 July 2010

Every weekend we bring you our weekly digest of the hyperbaric oxygen news. Comment below or Contact Us with newsworthy stories about all things HBOT.

SCIENCE

A paper in the May-June 2010 Polish Journal of Endocrinology concludes "HBOT was shown to have beneficial effects on atherosclerosis and glycaemic control" in a study of 28 diabetes patients with foot ulcers.

PRESS/BUSINESS

Suburban Philadelphia reporters first confirmed then denied that Lower Bucks Hospital, Bristol PA, will cease HBOT services in September following a court-ordered settlement of its heated dispute with Hyper Ox, Inc.

International Hyperbarics Association executive director Shannon Kenitz keynotes the US Autism & Asperger Association international conference August 9-12 in Park City UT.

PATIENT STORIES

The family of a 20-year-old woman credits hyperbaric treatment for her continuing recovery from brain injury after a brutal attack two years ago. Another version of her story here.

Surprisingly moving video about a Tennessee walking horse's recovery from severe colitis and endotoxemia with HBOT at the UT College of Veterinary Medicine.

Members of a band were rescued early Thursday morning from their burning house and one treated for smoke inhalation at the HCMC chamber in Minneapolis. Watch a firefighter talk about the rescue.

Videos from www.BalancedHealthToday.com don't usually make our cut, but here's a standout autism spot on Comcast Newsmakers with Hope Fine of South Florida Center for H.O.P.E.

A SCUBA diver and marine photographer in New Jersey blogs about his adult son's five-year-long struggle with traumatic brain injury and success with HBOT at Mount Vernon Hospital, Mount Vernon NY.

A 64-year-old man saves his right foot with HBOT at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urban IL, after a lawnmower accident. Ouch.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

The Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine at Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth NJ, comes to our attention with its effective multimedia promotion.

EMSA Hyperbaric & Wellness Center, Brookfield CT, offers HBOT with chiropractic, massage, and holistic health and lifestyle counseling.

St Francis Wound Center, Columbus GA, says it's the first in Georgia to use the BARA-MED chamber with O.S.C.A.R. by ETC Biomedical Systems.

We learn of the Wound Care Center at New River Medical Center, Monticello MN, with its announcement of a move to the hospital's Professional Building.

Black Hills Hyperbaric, Rapid City SD, is suddenly listed everywhere but on HyperbaricLink.

Wound care centers at Lower Bucks Hospital (Bristol), Grand View Hospital (Sellersville), and St Mary's Medical Center (Langhorne), in suburban Philadelphia PA, all come to our attention via the Lower Bucks-Hyper Ox story above.

Polson Hyperbaric Oxygen, Polson MT, just opened on US Hwy 93 next to Insty Prints.

Decatur County Memorial Hospital, Greensburg IN, tells us they begin treating patients August 2.

Spring Hill Regional Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center grabs our attention with a Tampa Tribune story about limb salvage for an 83-year-old woman with diabetes and wound healing for a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran.

New Care Therapies—Hyperbaric Oxygen Studio, Louisville KY, is new to us and mighty active on Facebook. Welcome.

Banner Boswell Medical Center, Sun City AZ, publicizes its Wound Care Center with a story of one recent "graduate," a 94-year-old woman recovering from skin cancer and a fall on a rock.

Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich CT, lit up our Google Alerts dashboard with its Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Healing.

Weekly Web Roundup: 11 July 2010

Catch up on the top HBOT business, science, and patient stories every weekend with HyperbaricLink.

SAFETY

A Sri Lankan website offers a concise overview of carbon monoxide poisoning and first aid.

PRESS/BUSINESS

The Wound Healing Program at Overlook Hospital, Summit NJ, has earned both UHMS accreditation and JCAHO certification.

Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda CA, adds "the largest monoplace hyperbaric chamber in a hospital west of Texas," the new Sechrist 4100, to its arsenal.

Point64 blog pictures the "Panama" chamber at Brooks AFB, San Antonio TX, the oldest operating hyperbaric chamber in the US, dating from 1904.

Divex Asia Pacific converts an industrial water chiller into a rescue HBOT chamber for ocean floor workers.

Today's Wound Clinic interviews Don Webber, VP Biomedical Systems at Environmental Tectonics Corporation.

SCIENCE

A rat study in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery could not find a wound-healing mechanism for HBOT in one mitochondrial marker (MnSOD) of oxidative stress.

University of Tokyo researchers publishing in the American Journal of Physiology, on a study of hairless mice, suggest that HBOT may slow skin wrinkling and thickening caused by UVB irradiation in sunlight.

PATIENT STORIES

A mother touchingly documents her and her daughter's first experiences with HBOT for autism on "Five kids, a dog, and a blog."

A 17-year-old from Santa Fe NM survived a horrific crash, suffered traumatic brain injury, and made a remarkable recovery with HBOT.

A woman in Central Florida, mother of a one-year-old triplet with severe brain damage, weighs the costs and benefits of HBOT in the "Mother of a Toddler and Triplets" blog.

A woman tells about her success with HBOT for reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) at Whole-Body Medicine in Trumbull CT.

A 47-year-old man recounts his success with HBOT for Lyme disease at Chico Hyperbaric Center, Chico CA.

An Iraq war veteran from Minnesota poses with Prince Harry and recounts his story of success with HBOT for traumatic brain injury in the Frazee-Vergas Forum.

A woman and her plastic surgeon explain how HBOT figured in the successful revision of a facial scar at the Beverly Hills Center for Hyperbaric Medicine.

World motorcycle sidecar champion Ben Birchall is undergoing HBOT to speed healing of skin grafts at the Isle of Man UK.

The 47-year-old president of an Italian sandal company, living in Ventura CA, pushes on and blogs bravely about his struggle to recover from traumatic brain injury.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

Munson Medical Center, Traverse City MI, has opened an advanced wound center with Accelecare.

Oak Leaf Surgical Hospital, Eau Claire WI, is running want ads to staff a wound care center with Hyperbaric Medicine Group scheduled to open in October.

Hutcheson Medical Center, Fort Oglethorpe GA, has opened an advanced wound center with Accelecare.

Santo Domingo Pueblo NM has invested in a mobile HBOT program to help tribal members with diabetes avoid limb amputation.

Weekly Web Roundup: 3 July 2010

Turn to HyperbaricLink every weekend for more hand-selected HBOT news from around the web. This week we're hypothesizing the Michael Jackson anniversary buzz crowded out the Science headlines.

SAFETY

A social media blitz announcing a new 2.0 ATA soft chamber (see Patients Medical under New HBOT Centers below) got us phoning around and digging into the Safety Standards for Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (PVHO-1) established by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for future blogposts and site content.

PRESS/BUSINESS

Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle WA, shares yet more news from the UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting (see our June 7 post). Dr James Holmes was elected to a 3-year term on the UHMS Board of Executive Directors. Dr Neil Hampson received the 2010 Ray Award for excellence in hyperbaric medicine.

Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis MN, is moving forward with its $9.85 million chamber replacement project. Click here to review our previous HCMC coverage.

PATIENT STORIES

The Washington Post reports that 11 were exposed, 4 hospitalized, and 2 successfully treated with hyperbaric oxygen for exposure to carbon monoxide from a vandalized water heater in an apartment building near Greenbelt MD.

A mother blogs in The Spectrum Spectacle about the progress of her 6-year-old boy with severe autism after 30 HBOT sessions.

Another mother, in one of the better video testimonials of its kind, tells about her son's progress with HBOT for autism.

The BBC reports that a Scottish man suffering the bends after diving off Porthkerris, Cornwall, was airlifted to Plymouth for hyperbaric oxygen treatment. He is still being treated for "water on the lung" and his condition unknown.

KRQE Sante Fe documents how HBOT is helping a Rio Rancho NM woman recover from a lightning strike that killed her husband during last year's 4th of July festivities.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

Patients Medical, an integrative medicine center in New York City, launches into hyperbarics with a 2.0 ATA soft chamber, "the only soft chamber of its kind available in a private office in Manhattan."

Aspirus Wausau Hospital, Wausau WI, announces a new two-chamber center with a mother's video story of her boy's treatment for delayed radiation injury.

St Luke's and Idaho Elks Rehabilitation Hospital are expanding HBOT services in Meridian and Boise ID.

G & G Holistic Addiction Treatment Center, North Miami Beach FL, adds mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

We learn of Sandhills Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine, Hamlet NC, by way of its announcement that Dr Alan Coulson has passed the certification exam by the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine (ACHM).

We learn of Excela Advanced Wound Care, Greensburg PA, by way of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review coverage of its open house.

And we learn of the Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Oxygen Center at Chandler Regional Medical Center, Chandler AZ, by way of its announcement that CHT Daniel McCluskey has been appointed to the UHMS national survey team.

Weekly Web Roundup: 27 June 2010

Sample some more of the HBOT news that fed our RSS page and excited our Twitter followers this week.

SCIENCE

Using mice to study heatstroke, a group from Taiwan publishing in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology found that "hyperbaric oxygen may improve outcomes ... by normalization of hypothalamic and thermoregulatory function."

Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care continues its series on hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Journal of Applied Physiology publishes "hyperbaric hyperoxia and normobaric reoxygenation increase excitability and activate oxygen-induced potentiation (OxIP) in CA1 hippocampal neurons." (Don't be embarrassed. We don't know what it means, either.)

An in vitro study of cancer cells out of Hunan Province, China, published in the journal Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine, concludes that "simple HBO2 treatment after 48 and 72 hours could inhibit the proliferation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma CNE2Z cells."

PRESS/BUSINESS

The Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Trust in Scotland has launched a new web resource for HBOT news and research.

Dr John Jackalone, associate director of the Hyperbaric and Wound Healing Center at St Joseph Hospital (formerly New Island Hospital), Bethpage NY, has been named Physician of the Year by the Metropolitan New York Association of Diabetes Educators (MNYADE).

The wound care centers at Ashland Community Hospital in Ashland OR, Valley View Regional Hospital in Ada OK, and Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Ashland KY have been recognized as a Centers of Distinction by Diversified Clinical Services.

PATIENT STORIES

A father speaks about his two injured sons, both casualties of war, one now undergoing HBOT for traumatic brain injury.

A young woman suffering an alleged adverse reaction to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil benefits from HBOT with Dr Ken Stoller at the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico.

A New Zealand pilot SCUBA diving in Papua, New Guinea, survives life-threatening decompression sickness after an amazing rescue ordeal and successful hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Italian grand prix motorcyle racer Valentino Rossi is using HBOT to speed recovery from a broken leg.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

The Center for Wellness, Charlotte NC, has added hyperbaric oxygen therapy to its service offerings.

Mercy Suburban Hospital, East Norriton PA, offers HBOT at its Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine.

South Central Regional Medical Center, Laurel MS, opens a Diversified Clinical Services wound care center.

Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo NY, has been cleared by the State Health Department to build a Diversified Clinical Services wound care center.

O2 is a new independent hyperbaric, infusion, and wound care center in Farmington Hills MI.

Sutter Delta Medical Center, Antioch CA, will soon open an Advanced Wound Care Center.

Tennessee Hyperbaric Center, Jackson TN, has opened an independent pain and hyperbaric oxygen therapies clinic.

The Finley Hospital, Dubuque IA, has opened a Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine.

St Mary Medical Center, Apple Valley CA, has opened a Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine with Paradigm Medical Management.

Weekly Web Roundup: 19 June 2010

We've been thinking the weekend's the perfect time for us to share more of the HBOT news that crosses our Blogger dashboard and fills up our Twitter page every week. Do enjoy our first selections, and send along stories you're pretty sure O2.0 readers shouldn't miss.

SCIENCE

A case study out of Intermountain/University of Utah on "Atypical Calciphylaxis in a Patient Receiving Warfarin Then Resolving with Cessation of Warfarin and Application of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy."

A WOCN/WCET study on combined HBOT and VAC therapy in complex wounds.

Scandinavian trauma journal article on the "Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on whole blood cyanide concentrations in carbon monoxide intoxicated patients from fire accidents."

Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care begins a series on hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

MEDIA/ENTERTAINMENT

A first-year medical student vlogger urges doctors on Grey's Anatomy to try HBOT next time they face amputation for a diabetic foot ulcer.

Heavyweight boxing contender Tony Thompson undergoing HBOT at Hyperbaric Therapy USA, Newtown Square PA.

PATIENT STORIES

A blogging mother reports progress with HBOT for her two-year-old with cerebral palsy.

Tucson neurologist Dr Carol Henricks to testify before Congress about her treatment of veterans with traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder.

PRESS/NEW CENTERS

The Sioux City Journal plugs the wound healing center at Mercy Medical Center, Sioux City IA.

Genesys Wound and Hyperbaric Center, Grand Blanc MI, plugs itself.

National Healing Corporation recognizes Moore Regional Hospital, Pinehurst NC, with its Front Runner Award. National Healing is also adding 40 employees at its Boca Raton FL headquarters.

Centegra Wound & Hyperbaric Center opens in Huntley IL.

Lexington Memorial Hospital, Lexington NC, opens a Diversified Clinical Services wound care center.

St Joseph's Hospital, Chippewa Falls WI, adds HBOT to its wound care center through Diversified Clinical Services.

Jupiter Medical Center, Jupiter FL, shows off its "largest chambers in the state" on YouTube.

Monongahela Valley Hospital, Monongahela PA, adds HBOT to its wound care center through Shared Health Services.

Dr Arturo M. Volpe has added mild HBOT to his Houston TX chiropractic practice.

HyperbaricLink Weekly Roundup

This week, as our site developers worked some wizardry behind the curtain, we assessed the nation's hyperbaric preparedness for wars foreign and domestic. Ooh-rah to OxyHeal for aiding the US Department of Defense in its much-anticipated TBI investigations. Now who will rush to outfit our first responders and trauma centers on the home front? Wednesday we sure enjoyed a hot cup of Morning Joe with Autism Speaks co-founders Bob and Suzanne Wright. And yesterday we offered directory assistance to the burgeoning advanced wound care industry. In our spare time, via Twitter and twisted pair, we explored the wonderful world of mild or mHBOT, or personal hyperbarics, for some fun tweets and blogposts next week. Yet more providers and manufacturers got a load of our upcoming Profile+Plus offering. Contact us and we'll email you a link to our quick demo, or stay tuned for the promo and our first batch online. Stay safe and warm, dear reader, till Monday.

HyperbaricLink Weekly Roundup

This week we filed some new posts and tweets on familiar themes, while busily preparing our site for the New Year ahead. HCMC stepped up its fight to keep Hennepin County, the Twin Cities, and Minnesota fully prepared for carbon monoxide, smoke, and burn emergencies. Best Publishing ran a holiday sale. Kindred Hospital Kansas City won UHMS accreditation and an upgraded directory listing. We're also proud to have added ProHBO in Greater Atlanta (Marietta, GA) and made acquaintances with dozens of others. Select treatment centers and chamber manufacturers got a sneak peek at our new Profile+Plus feature. (The world at large needn't wait much longer.) And it was an especially productive week of social networking, as we enabled readers to preview our news and share nice with AddThis, studied up for a Facebook launch, and broke 1,000 followers on Twitter, where we tweeted, too, on topics ranging from home safety to chronic pain, migraine, flu vaccines, autism, lupus, fibromyalgia, and wound management. Thanks to all who corresponded, conversed, and commented.