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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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The hospital also has a growing outpatient wound care service and a hyperbaric therapy service.
Broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics, aggressive surgical debridement and wound care, hyperbaric oxygen, and good intensive care are the mainstays of treatment.
But the hyperbaric chamber offers those struggling daily with painful ailments and diseases a chance at comfort, even if only for a day or two, said Sander, a chiropractor at the SCV Wellness Center in Newhall.
 
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