Incidentally, the 3 flight surgeons pictured as experiencing the symptoms of hypoxia are
located in a decompression or hypobaric chamber, not a hyperbaric chamber. By creating a …

Hyperbaric medicine is concerned with the therapeutic implications of exposure to
barometric pressures above 1 atm. The hyperbaric chamber is the therapeutic tool, while …

THE IMMINENCE of manned space flight permeates the thinking ot the world today. The
flight of manned satellites is no longer a fantastic dream of the distant future, for the …

Dear Editor, The recent document from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
(UHMS) adding “scientific” considerations to their published indications for hyperbaric …

Since the beginning of this century several portable hyperbaric chambers have been
designated for the treatment or prevention of various health problems. The first one was …

Decompression sickness (DCS) is characterized by a plethora of protean symptoms. It can
range from mildly annoying to life threatening. Its etiology is tissue and/or vascular bubbles …

Hyperbaric medicine or hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) involves using high
concentrations of oxygen (100%) at pressures greater than the surrounding ambient …

Abstract Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is highly safe in treatments based on internationally
accepted treatment tables. However, in some long-term treatments, the internal adjuvant and …

Concorde commonly cruises at altitudes of 50 000-60 000 ft (15 240-18 288 m) where, if
unprotected, its occupants would be unconscious within 15 seconds and dead four to six …

Altitude induced (hypobaric) decompression sickness (DCS) has long been treated with
ground level oxygen and US Navy Treatment Tables 5 and 6. These treatment tables …