Abstract: Spinal Cord Injury patients are liable to develop osteomyelitis mostly by extension from pressure ulcers. In 2055 records reviewed in the Long Beach Spinal Cord Injury Service of the Veterans Administration Medical Center, the incidence was found to be 4.3...
Chronic Wounds
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research for Chronic Wounds.
[Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of various orthopedic disorders].
Abstract: A Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT) unit was set up some months ago in the Anaesthesia Service of the Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute in Milan. HOT can be used in a number cases which are not relevant to the present report. In the field of Orthopaedics and...
[Combined treatment of chronic traumatic osteomyelitis of the mandible using hyperbaric oxygenation].
Abstract: Dunaev, Karapetian, Volozhin, , , , , , (). [Combined treatment of chronic traumatic osteomyelitis of the mandible using hyperbaric oxygenation]. Stomatologiia, ;61(6):64-6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6961599
Spinal epidural abscesses. Surgical and parasurgical management.
Abstract: 42 cases of spinal epidural abscesses were operated on in the years 1957-1980, among approximately 8,000 spinal operations. Staphylococcus aureus was the microorganism most commonly isolated from infected material and the primary source of infection was in...
Cardiopulmonary consequences of decompression stress.
Abstract: Clinically undetectable venous gas emboli (VGE) can be routinely demonstrated in both animals and men undergoing clinically uneventful decompression from hyperbaric environments. The effect of VGE on gas exchange and pulmonary hemodynamics in this setting is...
Hyperbaric oxygenation: prosthodontic responsibilities.
Abstract: This article discussed the use of hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis, osteoradionecrosis, and nonhealing wounds. The fabrication of custom-fitted oxygen applicators is presented, and specific recommendations are made for their use....
[Radiation injury of the spinal cord].
Abstract: The literature dealing with radiation myelopathy is reviewed. The following points are to be noticed:radiation myelopathy is a rare complication in the radiation therapy of extraspinal tumors, nevertheless the number of case reports is increasing during the...
[Primary chronic hyperbaric disease in a diver].
Abstract: Teresiński, Pielowski, , , , , , , (1975). [Primary chronic hyperbaric disease in a diver]. Wiadomosci lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960), 1975 Jun;28(11):967-70. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1136461
HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS.
Abstract: SLACK, THOMAS, PERRINS, , , , , , (1965). HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS. Lancet (London, England), 1965 May;1(7395):1093-4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14283767