Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers for Autism Cerebral Palsy Health and Athletes &#187; Brain Injury

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is being studied as a treatment of traumatic brain injury.

“Hyperbaric” oxygen simply means oxygen that is given at pressures greater than atmospheric pressure, which is the pressure of the air we normally breathe. To achieve high pressures, a compression chamber is used. These chambers look like a miniature submarine and are built to withstand the high air pressure created inside them, which is where the patient is treated. Compression chambers were first used to treat divers with “the bends,” a condition that occurs when a diver ascends too rapidly and nitrogen compressed in the blood as a result of high underwater pressure expands too rapidly for the body to adapt.
Cochrane Database Systems Review. 2004 October; 18; (4): CD004609. http://www.balancedhealthtoday.com/Hyperbaric-Chamber-FAQ.html

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Does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) correct brain-injury? Part 2

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BRAIN INJURY

“In an attempt to address the uncertainty surrounding the use of HBOT, the authors of this review identified all high quality trials investigating the effectiveness of HBOT in traumatically brain-injured patients of all ages.
The authors found five eligible studies involving 442 patients. The combined results suggest that HBOT reduces the risk of death; however, there is no good evidence that these survivors have improved outcome in terms of quality of life.

It is possible, therefore, that the overall effect of hyperbaric oxygen is to make it more likely that people will survive with severe disability after such injuries. The authors conclude that the routine use of HBOT in brain-injured patients cannot be justified by the findings of this review.

Due to the small number of trials with a limited number of participants, it is not possible to be confident in the findings; further large, high quality trials are required to define the true extent of benefit from HBOT.

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Does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) correct brain-injury? Part 1

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Does hyperbaric oxygen therapy improve the survival and quality of life in patients with traumatic brain injury?

Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of death and disability. Not all damage to the brain occurs at the moment of injury; reduction of the blood flow and oxygen supply to the brain can occur afterwards and cause further secondary brain damage, which is itself an important cause of avoidable death and disability. In the early stages after injury it is therefore important that efforts are made to minimise secondary brain damage to provide the best chances of recovery.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been proposed as a treatment for minimising secondary brain damage by improving the oxygen supply to the brain. Patients undergoing HBOT are placed inside a specially designed chamber in which 100% oxygen is delivered at a greater than normal atmospheric pressure. It is sometimes used as a treatment to increase the supply of oxygen to the injured brain, in an attempt to reduce the area of brain that will die.

The effectiveness of HBOT on the recovery of brain-injured patients is uncertain. There is also concern regarding potential adverse effects of the therapy, including damage to the ears, sinuses and lungs from the effects of pressure, temporary worsening of short-sightedness, claustrophobia and oxygen poisoning.

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Hyperbaric Chambers, Stroke, Brain Injury, Blindness

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a well-established medical treatment. In April 2005, the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society recognized the therapy as an effective treatment for 13 specific conditions:

• embolisms (air or gas bubbles in the bloodstream, which may travel to the brain or lungs);
• carbon monoxide poisoning (from inhaling smoke or car exhaust);
• gas gangrene;
• crush injury, Compartment Syndrome and other acute traumatic problems where blood flow is reduced or cut off (e.g., frostbite);
• decompression sickness (the bends);
• enhancement of healing for wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers;
• exceptional blood loss (anemia);
• intracranial abscess (an accumulation of pus in the brain);
• necrotizing soft tissue infections (flesh-eating disease);
• osteomyelitis (bone infection);
• delayed radiation injury (e.g., radiation burns that develop after cancer therapy);
• skin grafts and flaps that are not healing well; and
• thermal burns (e.g., from fire or electrical sources).

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