Posted on 02/26/2024 8:30:49 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy—giving patients 100% oxygen at a pressure corresponding to 10–20 meters below sea level—has been around for almost 100 years. But the method lacks modern evidence from clinical studies, which also means that there is a lack of knowledge about dosage, all patients receive the same dose.
"When I started my research, I wanted to find out how the treatment should be dosed to different patients," says Anders Kjellberg, deputy chief physician and head of the Hyperbaric Unit at Karolinska University Hospital and researcher who has now written a thesis on hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
But he only had time to do two dose trials—then came the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We had patients with oxygen deficiency and uncontrolled inflammation. They had exactly the problems that hyperbaric oxygen therapy can help with," says Anders Kjellberg.
He has tested the treatment on 17 COVID-19 patients at three different hospitals and compared it with an equally large control group.
"In the 20 patients we had at Karolinska University Hospital, we saw a huge difference between those who received the treatment and those who did not. They were able to go home much earlier and their vital parameters such as pulse, respiratory rate and oxygenation improved," he says.
The hypothesis is that the treatment exposes the immune cells to a stress that causes old and bad immune cells to die, thereby rejuvenating the entire population of immune cells that function better afterwards.
A study on 80 post-COVID patients is now underway, with the hope that they will also benefit from the treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
There are walk-in clinics across the US that can provide this.
Seems like a severe fire hazard, if proper precautions are not taken. And proper precautions would be quite extensive..
Perhaps many cannot imagine.. Pressurized Oxygen atmosphere - the slightest spark from static, for example, could result in a violent inferno.
Very poorly worded!
They don't mean "at the air pressure prevailing at 10 to 20 meters below sea-level!"
Rather, they mean "at the pressure prevailing when you are diving 10 to 20 meters under water!"
Idiots!
Regards,
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I just finished 60 sessions of HBOT at a local hospital due to radiation proctitis caused by my treatments for prostate cancer caused by agent orange exposure back then.
They have you dress in new scrubs every day and put a ground on your wrist. They don’t allow anything besides what you were born with in the chamber. Need to shower before each session. No metal, batteries, hearing aids and hard contacts can go in the chamber.
In my case it worked somewhat but still need a transfusion every 6 months or so...
I was bleeding from my bladder lining 2 years after radiation for my prostate. Lots of pain and lots of nurses pumping clots out of me. Was in the hospital 27 days out of 30.
60 hyperbaric treatments later cured.
center was run by UCSD 2 techs in attendance at all times during the 90 minute treatments. Doctor on duty. Other techs in the building. Professional.
Darn, hope you recover fully!
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