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hyperbaric medicine
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hyperbaric medicine

Use of oxygen at high pressure to treat conditions such as decompression sickness, carbon monoxide poisoning and gas gangrene. Treatment is given in a hyperbaric chamber.


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One such location, Tranquility Respite Care in Beverly Hills, offers massages, acupuncture and access to a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, thought by some to reduce scars and speed healing.
Pressure is provided by placing the person in an above-normal pressure chamber, or hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
I told them to go ahead and invite everyone they already had invited; we'd find the space," said Herb Altman, who has operated the center's hyperbaric oxygen chamber for the past 34 years.
 
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