[TomB]

I know it shouldn't suprise me, but I'm continually amazed that there is ALWAYS someone monday morning quarterbacking around here. There were literally dozens of physicians there, trained in diving and deep water rescue, mine rescue, and trauma (Conemaugh has the largest trauma center between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh). And this guy claims they ALL have been somehow pressured/deluded into not treating these guys properly.

One second of critical thinking tells you the theory is worthless.

So how common are hyperbaric chambers in trauma centers?

I know the Navy brought some to the hospital (the carrier took a chunk out of a pedestrian walkway), but what would happen if they needed one and one wasn't there?

[fineright]

"So how common are hyperbaric chambers in trauma centers?"

Hopkins in Baltimore had two of them in 1983. One reason they told me was because drugs have an easier time getting into the bloodstream.
I got into a nasty accident on a bike and gotta helicopter ride to shock-trauma that year.
I needed a few operations to make things work again and I woke from most of those in the hyperbaric. I even had some hyperbaric therapy which was basically sitting in there for 2-4 hrs a day.
Seemed to work, I can walk again.