CO Poisoning: Is HBOT Still The Gold Standard?

One of our chief missions is to raise awareness and help increase 24/7 access to HBOT chambers at emergency rooms for victims of thermal burns, smoke inhalation, and carbon monoxide poisoning. (Review our past coverage here.) So we were especially pleased to discover a new posting of a 2007 talk by Dr Fred Fiesseler of Morristown (NJ) Memorial Hospital. Drawn from case studies and a review of the medical literature, Fiesseler's presentation reaffirms our commitment to this mission. To listen to the audio file follow this link:

Is Hyperbaric Oxygen Still the Standard for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?

Going forward we will be identifying ER-accessible chambers in our treatment center directory and partnering with emergency medical associations and innovative companies like Healthagen to spread this lifesaving information far and wide.

Of course some political activism may be in order, too, and count on HyperbaricLink to be there.

Wright-Patterson AFB Opens Chamber To Public

Kettering Health Network in suburban Dayton today announced that its members now enjoy access to hyperbaric physicians and chambers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Home to one of the nation's largest multiplace HBOT chambers, with a capacity of 22 people, Wright-Patt is a leader in pressurized medicine for military aviators and is accredited, with Distinction, by the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). KHN also provides hyperbaric woundcare in monoplace chambers at Kettering Medical Center.

As we grow and commercialize our treatment center directories, HyperbaricLink.com will offer free Profile+Plus listings to all US military clinics, whether open to civilians or restricted to servicemembers and veterans. Let's keep 'em flying!

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.

Kindred Hospital KC Earns UHMS Accreditation

HyperbaricLink congratulates Kindred Hospital, Kansas City, MO, upon being named the first long-term acute care facility to receive accreditation by the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). In its Facebook post Kindred notes that its KC wound care team is led by a board-certified hyperbaric physician and medical director and includes two full-time certified hyperbaric technologists and one part-time certified hyperbaric registered nurse. We've spruced up our directory listing to acknowledge the hospital's well-earned status upgrade.

HyperbaricLink Treatment Center Directory Doubles

In preparation for our next wave of site improvements, we've just restocked the HyperbaricLink directories with more than 500 treatment centers. That's double our previous tally and double the chance every one of our guests will find a facility close to home. Every day we're working hard to build the very best HBOT directory on the Web—not only the most complete listings but also the most searchable, clickable, and usable info on hyperbaric oxygen therapy ever assembled.