Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research for Spinal Cord Injuries
Abstract Background context: The past three decades have witnessed increasing interest in strategies to improve neurologic function after spinal cord injury. As progress is made in our understanding of the pathophysiologic events that occur after acute spinal cord...
Abstract: The Miskito Indian lobster divers of Central America employ very provocative diving profiles and experience severe neurological decompression sickness (DCS) and/or arterial gas embolism (AGE). Scientific data are scarce regarding the clinical patterns of...
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) therapy has been reported to improve neurological recovery following spinal cord injury (SCI). In the present study, we examined whether multiple HBO expands the therapeutic window for acute SCI. Single HBO (2.8 ATA, 1 hour)...
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) therapy has been reported to improve neurological recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI). In the present study, the authors examined whether multiple HBO therapy can expand the therapeutic window after acute SCI. Seventy rats...
Abstract: Dysbarism or decompression illness (DCI), a general term applied to all pathological changes secondary to altered environmental pressure, has two forms decompression sickness (DCS) and arterial gas embolism (AGE) after pulmonary barotrauma. Cerebral and...
Abstract: Neurologists may be consulted to diagnose and treat the severe neurologic injuries that can occur in divers with decompression illness (DCI). Subclinical bubbles form during normal diving activity. DCI, a diffuse and multifocal process, results when bubbles...
Abstract: Normal tissue injury may lead to severe, life threatening, late side effects after therapeutic use of irradiation. Neurological complications caused by radiation of the spinal cord are ascribed to progressive, irreversible damage to the vasculature....
Abstract: The recognition and appropriate emergency management of orthopedic emergencies is essential to minimize damage and optimize outcome. Priorities, principles and good judgment can make a difference in the overall outcome for the injured patient. These...
Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine if the ischemic tolerance could be induced in the spinal cord by pretreatment with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) and what components of HBO (hyperoxia, hyperbaricity, and combination of these two) were critical in the...