#Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

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On Instagram the other day I saw a video of a deep sea welder getting into a hyperbaric chamber to help prevent the bends (the typical use I have seen for these machines). In the comments a former soldier talked about how he had been in a helicopter crash and part of the treatment for his injuries was using a hyperbaric chamber to force medication into his wounds. Is this something you know about and can explain how that works?

Yeah!

Before you understand how hyperbaric chambers work, you have to understand how pressure works with the human body. Please read this post on that.

At high pressure (deep underwater) nitrogen (which is about 78% of the air we breathe) dissolves into our blood plasma (or is present in our blood plasma as the teeniest of bubbles). As the pressure decreases (at sea level) the nitrogen bubbles expand. This blocks tiny blood vessels and causes severe pain and other problems.

To treat or prevent the bends, a hyperbaric chamber can increase the pressure around the person again, which makes the bubbles tiny and harmless again. If you then slowly let off the pressure, the nitrogen can re-absorb as it expands, which means the person doesn't get sick.

You can, as you pointed out, use hyperbaric chambers for other things too. Things like helping wounds heal, for instance.

Oxygen is crucial for a lot of things, one of them being wound healing.

The body carries oxygen in it's red blood cells. These cells pick up oxygen in the lungs and deliver it to places throughout the body that need it. At one atmosphere of pressure (at sea level), there is a finite amount of oxygen a body can carry based on the number of red blood cells that person has, even if they're breathing pure oxygen (instead of the 21% oxygen available in room air).

But note that I said at one atmosphere. Because it just so happens if you increase the pressure to between 1.4 and 6 atmospheres and have the person breathe 100% oxygen, you can dissolve oxygen directly into their blood plasma. This greatly increases the amount of oxygen the blood can carry- at least for as long as the person is under pressure.

More oxygen in the blood means more oxygen available to the wound, which helps it heal faster. As long as you increase and decrease the pressure slowly, the person won't get the bends, either.

Generally hyperbaric oxygen therapy is done for 1.5-2 hours at a time, and the number of treatments can be anywhere from 2 or 3 to over 40 over the course of a few weeks to months.

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Some interesting science analyzed

BY BROOKS LEITNER

Imagine lying back in an enclosed chamber where you bask for 90 minutes in a sea of pure oxygen at pressures two to three times that felt at sea level. This is the world of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), a technology that’s been around for decades and is now being explored as a possible treatment for Long COVID.

"The silence on the inside is deafening at first,” says John M.,* who has undergone dozens of HBOT treatments for his persistent Long COVID symptoms. Fortunately, there is a television outside the chamber in view, and it is easy to communicate with the provider if needed. While the potential protocol is still being refined, patients may undergo up to 40 HBOT sessions to address some of the most problematic, lingering symptoms of this complex condition.

HBOT is a therapeutic process that has been widely used to treat such conditions as decompression sickness in scuba divers, carbon monoxide poisoning, and diabetic foot ulcers. In HBOT, the body is exposed to 100% oxygen, a significant increase from the 21% oxygen concentration we typically breathe. The therapy takes place in an enclosed chamber where the air pressure is elevated above normal levels. The combination of high-pressure and high-oxygen conditions enhances the amount of oxygen that can reach the body's tissues. The hope is that this therapy can provide the same relief and healing to people with Long COVID that it does for those with other conditions.

According to John M., HBOT was the first treatment that helped with his sleep and reduced his heart palpitations. “At one point after hospitalization, my Long COVID symptoms were so bad that I could barely walk or talk. HBOT was a great tool that really assisted with my recovery,” he said. John added that he hopes the medical community will achieve a better understanding of how HBOT can help relieve suffering for patients with Long COVID and that more research will increase access to this innovative therapy.

Does HBOT improve Long COVID symptoms? One key observation from the work of Inderjit Singh, MBChB, an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) specializing in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, is that Long COVID patients often experience debilitating fatigue. Based on Dr. Singh’s previous Long COVID research, the exhaustion is thought to be linked to the muscles’ inability to efficiently extract and utilize oxygen.

To picture how HBOT might work, you can think of your muscles as engines sputtering, struggling to get the fuel they need. If oxygen is the gas that fuels the muscles, it’s as if you are trying to complete your daily routine while the gas tank is running on “empty.” By aiming to directly address this oxygen utilization impairment, HBOT may be a potential solution.

A systematic review by researchers at the China Medical University Hospital noted that HBOT could tackle another major factor in the Long COVID puzzle: oxidative stress. This relates to the body's struggle to maintain balance when harmful molecules, known as free radicals, run amok, causing chronic inflammation.

Research co-authored by Sandra K. Wainwright, MD, medical director of the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Healing at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, suggests that HBOT, with its high-oxygen environment, might dampen this chronic inflammation by improving mitochondrial activity and decreasing production of harmful molecules. Other potential benefits of HBOT in the treatment of Long COVID may include restoration of oxygen to oxygen-starved tissues, reduced production of inflammatory cytokines, and increased mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells—primary cells that transform into red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.

HBOT for Long COVID: Current and ongoing research Several small-scale reports have indicated that HBOT is safe for patients with Long COVID.

To address this question, a trial that followed the gold standard of modern medical research—a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind design—assigned 73 Long COVID patients to either receive 40 sessions of HBOT or a placebo of only 21% oxygen. The study observed positive changes in attention, sleep quality, pain symptoms, and energy levels among participants receiving HBOT. In a longitudinal follow-up study published in Scientific Reports, the authors at the Tel Aviv University found that clinical improvements persisted even one year after the last HBOT session was concluded. In a second study, the same authors focused on heart function, measured by an echocardiogram, and found a significant reduction in heart strain, known as global longitudinal strain, in patients who received HBOT.

In another study, 10 patients with Long COVID underwent 10 HBOT treatments over 12 consecutive days. Testing showed statistically significant improvement in fatigue and cognitive function. Meanwhile, an ongoing trial at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has reported interim safety results wherein almost half of the Long COVID patients in the trial reported cough or chest discomfort during treatment. However, it was unclear whether HBOT exacerbated this symptom or if this adverse effect was due to the effort of participation by patients suffering from more severe Long COVID symptoms.

Is HBOT currently available as a treatment for Long COVID? For HBOT to become a mainstream treatment option for Long COVID, several critical priorities must be addressed. First, there is currently no established method for tailoring HBOT dosages to individual patients, so researchers must learn more about the specific features or symptoms that indicate potential benefits from HBOT. At the same time, we need to identify factors that may be associated with any adverse outcomes of HBOT. And finally, it’s important to determine how long these potentially beneficial effects last in a larger cohort. Will just a few HBOT trials be enough to restore patients to their baseline health, or will HBOT become a recurring component of their annual treatment regimen?

For now, HBOT remains an experimental therapy—and as such is not covered by insurance. This is a huge issue for patients because the therapy is expensive. According to Dr. Wainwright, a six-week course of therapy can run around $60,000. That’s a lot to pay for a therapy that’s still being studied. In the current completed studies, different treatment frequencies and intensities have been used, but it’s unclear how the treatment conditions affect the patient’s outcome.

“I have had some patients notice improvements after only 10 or 15 treatments, whereas some others need up to 45 treatments before they notice a difference,” notes Dr. Wainwright. “I think that HBOT is offering some promising results in many patients, but it is probably a strong adjunctive treatment to the other spectrum of things Long COVID patients should be doing, like participating in an exercise, rehab, and nutritional program.”

Dr. Singh notes that “a major challenge for research is the heterogeneity of Long COVID. It is hard to determine which symptoms to treat and enroll patients into trials based on them.”

Perhaps treatments that target multiple issues caused by Long COVID, like HBOT, may help overcome this challenge.

*Not his real name.

Brooks Leitner is an MD/PhD candidate at Yale School of Medicine.

The last word from Lisa Sanders, MD: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is just one of the many existing treatments that are being looked at to treat Long COVID. We see this with many new diseases—trying to use a treatment that is effective in one set of diseases to treat another. And there is reason for optimism: We know that HBOT can deliver high levels of oxygen to tissues in need of oxygen. That’s why it’s used to treat soft tissue wounds. If reduced oxygen uptake is the cause of the devastating fatigue caused by Long COVID, as is suggested by many studies, then perhaps a better delivery system will help at least some patients.

Studies referenced:

bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-023-08002-8

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8806311/

www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53091-3

www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15565-0

www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2024.1354088/full

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11051078/#:~:text=Proposed%20Mechanism%20of%20HBOT%20o

[yaminahsaini]

Samedi 8 juin 2024: Hier j’avais eu rdv avec le docteur du sommeil, il m’a prescrit un autre examen que je devrais faire. Pour l’instant je paie une partie de mes soins car l’assurance maladie fait n’importe quoi et ça fait trop cher donc je vais attendre que ce soit réglée avant de faire cet examen… De toute façon je vous tiens informé de tout. Je suis restée un petit moment dehors et dans la nuit j’ai eu l’apparition d’une migraine atroce, c’était ciblé à l’arrière de ma tête et ça faisait ultra mal.. je n’ai donc pas bien dormis du tout… À mon réveil j’avais toujours mal.. puis heureusement que ça s’est calmé. J’ai ensuite fait une séance d’oxygénothérapie hyperbare.

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a clinical treatment that includes taking in 100 percent oxygen in a compressed chamber. This therapy has been viewed as successful in various circumstances, including wound mending, carbon monoxide harming, and even going hair loss.

In recent years, research has shown that HBOT can also be an effective treatment for hair growth. By increasing blood flow and oxygen supply to the scalp, HBOT can provide the hair follicles with the necessary nutrients and oxygen needed to promote hair growth. This increased blood flow can also help remove any toxins or waste products that may be hindering hair growth.

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Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal thank goodness they didn't do seven seasons of this naming convention...

Okay folks, even though this aired quite a while ago I just now watched it, so I'm just now writing about it.

Awl - X-Ray + Penny - Duct Tape + Jack - CD + Hoagie Foil - Guts + Fuel + Hope - Wilderness + Training + Survival - Father + Bride + Betrayal - Lidar + Rogues + Duty - Nightmares - Seeds + Permafrost + Feather - Friends + Enemies + Border - Mason + Cable + Choices - Bitter Harvest - Kid + Plane + Cable + Truck - Tesla + Bell + Edison + Mac - Golden Lancehead + Venom + Pole Vault + Blood + Baggage

In conclusion to the nanotracker story arc, Mac and Riley go missing for over 24 hours. When they reappear, not only have they no memory of the previous day, but video footage shows them obeying dozens of commands, including one to fight each other and one to fire a weapon at a mannequin (though based on a line Mac says later, this horrifyingly might not have been the original version of this scene).

Vowing not to allow their bodies to be used against their will again, Mac and Riley decide to undergo a potentially dangerous treatment- exposing the nanites to high concentrations of oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber.

Just because mind control nanites are still pretty science fiction, this post will mostly be about hyperbaric medicine.

Hyperbaric Chambers:

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is a type of treatment that uses high pressure and high oxygen concentrations to treat a variety of illnesses and injuries. These include things like non-healing wounds, crush injuries, carbon monoxide poisoning, cyanide poisoning, severe infections, and delayed radiation injuries.

A patient is placed into a chamber like the one above (though there are also larger chambers that can accommodate multiple people). Oxygen or medical air is then forced into the chamber, increasing the pressure to the prescribed depth. Depths vary depending on patient needs and the capabilities of the chamber, but can be anywhere from 1.4 atmospheres to over 6 atmospheres.

The high pressure and high oxygen concentration in the hyperbaric chamber allows oxygen to dissolve directly into the blood plasma. This helps higher concentrations of oxygen get to parts of the body that may not have the best circulation (non-healing wounds, crush injuries), give a boost of oxygen to parts of the body that need it (severe infections, delayed radiation injuries), or provide oxygen when the hemoglobin can't carry it (carbon monoxide poisoning, cyanide poisoning). The high pressure helps reduce the size of errant bubbles in the blood stream as well, which can treat the symptoms of air embolism and decompression sickness. The pressure is then gradually reduced to allow the bubbles to dissolve without severe pain.

Oxygen Toxicity:

In the episode, Mac and Riley require very high concentrations of oxygen in their blood in order to poison the nanites. Like any medical treatment, there are risks to hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Most of them have to do with air pockets in the body. These include barotrauma cause by bubbles under tooth fillings, in the sinus cavities, and the air in the inner ear which can expand and contract, causing pain. They can also include oxygen toxicity, which can be lung-related (burning pain, cough, difficulty breathing), or nervous system related (seizures).

In the episode, Mac suffers the latter type of complication when he has a seizure at 3.5 atmospheres. Seizures are a very rare complication (about 0.7 out of 10,000 treatments will result in a seizure), but oxygen toxicity does lower the seizure threshold. This means that for someone with a pre-existing seizure disorder or another reason they might have a seizure (low blood sugar, certain drugs, fever in children, etc...) they are more likely to have a seizure during a treatment.

Mac also was more likely to have oxygen toxicity than the typical person undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy. See, when a person is "at depth" in a chamber, they have a mask they can wear to give them room air (about 21% oxygen) at periodic intervals in order to prevent oxygen toxicity. Since the goal was to give Mac oxygen toxicity to kill the nanites, they likely forewent this precaution, which might have made it a lot more likely he would have had pulmonary complications or seizures.

The Bends:

Because he was in the chamber when he had the seizure, they decompress him and get him out of the chamber. It seems to take only seconds, even though they do hang a lantern on it by saying something to the effect of "we can't decompress him too quickly or he'll get the bends and then we'll never get him back!" (I'd quote it exactly but they took the episode off of Paramount+).

In reality, it would have taken at least an hour to adequately decompress him. If they needed to get him out as fast as they did, they'd need to re-compress him or he really would get the bends (though the bends is usually delayed by 15 minutes to 12 hours, so they'd have some time to get him back to depth). Here is a recommended re-compression table (18 MSW is the same as 1.8 atmospheres):

Has someone written that fic? Cause I need the fic where they have to break it to Mac that he has to go back into the chamber.

Anyway, this was a short one, but I hope you all learned something!

[yaminahsaini]

🫧Se soigner grâce à l’oxygénothérapie hyperbare:

J’ai publiée une vidéo sur ma chaîne YouTube pour vous présenter tout ce qui concerne cette thérapie (avant de me poser des questions, merci de la regarder jusqu’au bout pour bien comprendre si ce n’est pas déjà fait)➡️ https://youtu.be/bqYrUloGOdI?si=iOXlBEpsViYM3pCP

L’oxygénothérapie hyperbare m’aide énormément, ça n’a que des bienfaits et pourtant méconnue en France.

J’ai l’opportunité de bénéficier de séances régulières grâce au centre Oxygenome (n’hésitez pas à aller sur leurs site internet/les contacter pour toutes informations, réserver des séances, louer ou acheter des caissons➡️ https://oxygenome.fr). C’est accessible à absolument tout le monde et non qu’au milieu médical. C’est sûrement ce qui peut également vous aider alors je pense qu’il est important que vous ayez conscience que ça existe.

Depuis que j’en fais certains de mes symptômes ont diminué/sont supportable, par exemple :

•Je n’ai plus de crises de migraine

•Je n’ai plus de brouillard cérébral/brainfog (hors fatigue insupportable).

•Je n’ai plus de crise insupportable d’endométriose.

Plus je fais de séances, plus je sens des améliorations.

C’est une thérapie bénéfique contre lyme & les co-infections (dont j’ai pu également bénéficier lorsque j’avais commencée mes soins aux États-Unis).

Petite info: J’ai pu d’ailleurs voir de mes yeux l’évolution de certains patients qui en bénéficient. Bref, Je ne vais pas pouvoir lister tout les bienfaits (que ce soit médical ou non) car il y’en a trop. Vous pouvez donc chercher sur internet pour chaque cas ce que l’oxygénothérapie hyperbare peut procurer.

Ps: Ce n’est pas une thérapie prise en charge donc malheureusement pas accessible à tout le monde.. Non reconnue en France, très peu d’études sont faites malgré que l’on ne peut que constater ses bienfaits. C’est pourquoi en milieu hospitalier ce n’est réserver qu’au cas grave car les réglages ne sont pas les mêmes.

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

One of our most fundamental connections to life is the assimilation of oxygen from the air we breathe into every tissue in our bodies. Without oxygen, and its ability to spark our body’s life-giving process of creating cellular energy, we could not survive. For centuries physicians have used oxygen in a healing capacity, and at least as far back as the 1600s began experimenting with the effect of putting patients into a pressurized, or hyperbaric environment for the purpose of stimulating healing.

Many have heard of hyperbaric oxygen for the purpose of treating decompression sickness or “the bends”, for divers who have ascended too quickly. In these instances, hyperbaric oxygen is a lifesaving therapy that helps resolve excess nitrogen accumulated in body tissues. Over the last century however, the use of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber has expanded to treat a long list of health conditions, by the simple fact that increasing levels of oxygen in tissues can have a profound healing effect.

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