Hyperbaric Oxygen

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Overview

Hyperbaric Oxygen is a therapy that involves the administration of Oxygen at high pressure (usually requiring the patient to be enclosed in a Hyperbaric Oxygen chamber). Hyperbaric Oxygen’s therapeutic value is based on the knowledge that Oxygen, when administered at pressure greater than that of the earth’s atmosphere (at sea level) assumes drug-like qualities.

 

Conventional Medicine’s Employment of Hyperbaric Oxygen

Detoxification

 Hyperbaric Oxygen is often employed to treat Carbon Monoxide poisoning (it , stops Lipid Peroxidation, which prevents the death of Cell Membranes).

 Hyperbaric Oxygen is most widely utilized in the treatment of Compressed Air Illness (encompassing the Bends and Decompression Sickness).

 

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