Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-regina!axelrod From: axelrod@regina.DEC Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Hyperbaric Chambers Message-ID: <3082@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 12:45:32 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3082 Posted: Fri Jul 12 12:45:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:16:27 EDT Sender: lai@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 15 Hyperbaric Chambers are used to treat gangrene. Gangrene is an anaerobic bacterium, so extra O2 perfused into the tissues saves limbs and lives. When I was working at Children's Hospital, Boston, 15 years ago, they quarantined their hyperbaric facility and set up an intensive care bed right next to the chamber. Someone from Maine was brought in for several days of treatment of a few hours each. Another application, at that time, was for pediatric cardiac surgery. They had a complete operating room, with explosion-proof (non-arcing) monitors and everything, inside the chamber. An attached, smaller chamber contained bloodgas analysis and other routine chemistry test equipment. I didn't learn how they comp- ensated for the results under pressure. Everyone in the chamber had to wear a mask with hoses to give them the right breathing mixture. Glenn Axelrod Maynard, Mass