The role of hyperbaric oxygen in current emergency medical care

摘要: Abstract HBO is the definitive treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning, air or gas embolism, and decompression sickness. It an important adjunct to other modalities in management of patients with cyanide exceptional blood loss (anemia), crush injury, gangrene. In addition, has many investigational uses such as reduction edema acute bowel obstruction before surgical intervention. should be remembered that best hope tissue recovery occurs when initiated within 4 6 hours injury. After this time irreversible muscle peripheral nerve damage usually will have occurred ischemic tissue.