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Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7e
| Section 3. Resuscitation > |
Chapter e18.1. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Sections: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Introduction, Principles of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Physiologic Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen, Specific Emergency Applications of Hyperbaric Oxygen, Complications of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Contraindications to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Acknowledgments, References.
Topics Discussed: hyperbaric oxygenation.
Excerpt:"The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society1 has
developed a list of conditions for which hyperbaric oxygen (HBO)
therapy is an effective treatment modality (Table
18.1-1).2 For this chapter, we consider the
diagnoses that lend themselves most clearly to emergency medicine
practice—CO poisoning, gas gangrene, necrotizing
fasciitis, acute traumatic peripheral ischemia, decompression sickness
(DCS), air-gas embolism, and exceptional blood loss anemia...."
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