August 07, 2012
President, American College of Hyperbaric Medicine (ACHM) Medical Director, The Center for Comprehensive Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, St. Luke's Medical Center, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, Wisconsin President and Chief Medical Officer of WebCME.net Associate Professor and Hyperbaric Consultant, Medical College of Wisconsin MD from the Uniformed Services University of
July 18, 2012
In the wake of new incidents of pilot hypoxia and bends in the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet, CNN senior national security producer Mike Mount has filed an excellent report this week on the status of ongoing investigations. Choice quotation: Last month, the two members of Congress released numbers by the Air Force that showed pilots flying the F-22 Raptor reported illness from oxygen
July 18, 2012
In the wake of new incidents of pilot hypoxia and bends in the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet, CNN senior national security producer Mike Mount has filed an excellent report this week on the status of ongoing investigations. Choice quotation: Last month, the two members of Congress released numbers by the Air Force that showed pilots flying the F-22 Raptor reported illness from oxygen
July 17, 2012
Before we take a break from this topic, here's one more quick but inspiring story about success with hyperbaric oxygen therapy for deadly soft tissue infections, or flesh-eating disease, sometimes including gas gangrene or bone infections. Nurse manager Amy Pakes, RN, MS, says Nassau University Medical Center, a NuHealth hospital in East Meadow, New York, sees a dozen cases of necrotizing
July 17, 2012
Before we take a break from this topic, here's one more quick but inspiring story about success with hyperbaric oxygen therapy for deadly soft tissue infections, or flesh-eating disease, sometimes including gas gangrene or bone infections. Nurse manager Amy Pakes, RN, MS, says Nassau University Medical Center, a NuHealth hospital in East Meadow, New York, sees a dozen cases of necrotizing
July 16, 2012
Lana Kuykendall, this year's "other" high-profile victim of necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating disease, underwent extensive hyperbaric oxygen therapy as part of her remarkable recovery at Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. She also suffered with sepsis and endured more than 20 surgical procedures. Now the mother of twins born in May is heading home with all her limbs.
July 16, 2012
Lana Kuykendall, this year's "other" high-profile victim of necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating disease, underwent extensive hyperbaric oxygen therapy as part of her remarkable recovery at Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. She also suffered with sepsis and endured more than 20 surgical procedures. Now the mother of twins born in May is heading home with all her limbs.
July 15, 2012
In our daily search for hyperbaric news we enjoyed this 1968 photo from hyperbaric medicine at Penn (University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia): Hyperbaric chamber construction at the John Morgan Building in June, 1968 [pic]. Program info: pennmedicine.org/hyperbaric/ twitter.com/PennArchives/s… — Penn Archives (@PennArchives) June 25, 2012 Like so many others, Penn Medicine's
July 15, 2012
In our daily search for hyperbaric news we enjoyed this 1968 photo from hyperbaric medicine at Penn (University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia): Hyperbaric chamber construction at the John Morgan Building in June, 1968 [pic]. Program info: pennmedicine.org/hyperbaric/ twitter.com/PennArchives/s… — Penn Archives (@PennArchives) June 25, 2012 Like so many others, Penn Medicine's
July 13, 2012
Thank you, Internet, for bringing a new containerized hyperbaric rescue system to our attention. Add PBUCH S.A., out of Poland, to HyperbaricLink's list of other manufacturers of hyperbaric chambers. PBUCH is short for Przedsiebiorstwo Budowy Urzadzen Chlodniczych, or "Company Plant Engineering," as near as we can tell. Designed to treat decompression sickness (DCS) and for training of submarine