Hyperbaric Oxygen
Therapy as an Adjunct to Pre-hospital Advanced Trauma Life Support.
Most commercial diving operations and naval operations have
24/7, on-site availability of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to perform routine
surface decompression or immediate treatment of arterial gas embolism or
decompression sickness. Availability and prompt use of hyperbaric oxygen
therapy in the field for treatment of divers with dysbaric conditions has
demonstrated its efficacy in acute, co-morbid conditions such as acute
exsanguination, blast injury, crush injury, and cardiopulmonary arrest
affecting those same divers. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy applied in these cases
has demonstrated its utility to augment the efficacy of conventional,
pre-hospital advanced cardiac life support and advanced trauma life support.
Case studies gleaned from actual experience with the diving industry illustrate
the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in these conditions. The unexpectedly
favorable results have been replicated by controlled laboratory animal studies.
The deck decompression or saturation multiplace chambers used by offshore
diving operations can easily and quickly be converted for use as medical field
resuscitative units. Lightweight and mobile hyperbaric chambers can be
outfitted for use in ambulances or helicopters to address civilian street
injury or military "far-forward" injury. These transport chambers are
compact in design to be efficient transport stretchers designed to hold both
the patient and the medical support clinician. It is hoped that hyperbaric
oxygen therapy will gain an increasing role as an adjunct to pre-hospital
advanced cardiac life support and advanced trauma life support resuscitative
efforts as a low-cost, high-yield intervention. In this regard HBO as applied
to ATLS/ACLS in civilian and military medical systems may be a productive,
disruptive new application of technolo
Authors:
Keith Van Meter
Publication Detail:
Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE
Date: 2012-12-01
Journal Detail:
Title: Surgical technology
international Volume: XXI ISSN:
1090-3941 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication
Date: 2012 Dec
Date Detail:
Created Date: 2012-4-16
Completed Date: - Revised
Date: -
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID: 9604509
Medline TA: Surg Technol Int Country:
-
Other Details:
Languages: ENG
Pagination: 61-73 Citation
Subset: -
Affiliation:
Chief,
Section of Emergency Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center, Clinical Professor
of Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center , Clinical Professor of, Surgery,
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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