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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is increasingly appearing in the news and new research as a treatment for a variety of conditions involving inflammation. Use the search or select an article below to keep up to date on the most recent HBOT News.
Recent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) News
AP / ABC News: Doctors try pressurized oxygen chambers in COVID fight
As a New York University medical researcher who works once a week in an emergency room, Dr. David Lee had the luxury of time to think like a scientist while also treating coronavirus patients whose lungs kept giving out. In every case,...
Why Does the FDA Have Such an Unflattering View of Hyperbaric Medicine?
Article by Dick Clark on National Baromedical ServicesOn May 15, I submitted an Emergency Use Authorization request, seeking FDA approval for hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment of COVID-19 disease. You can read the entire submission in a...
UHMS Reverses Position On Use of HBOT for COVID-19
The Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) has just reconsidered its original opinion on the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to treat patients with COVID-19. They now support the compassionate care use of HBOT for COVID-19 in their...
Is the Time Right for Alternative Therapies?
Article by Joel Goldstein on BrainlineThe theory of neural plasticity claims that long after a brain is injured it may still retain the ability to repair itself, to regain lost functions by establishing new neural pathways in response...
Why Would the FDA Block the Use of HBOT to Avoid Intubation in COVID-19 Pneumonia?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has been used for many decades to treat a variety of maladies which have as their common denominator low tissue oxygen levels (hypoxia). Thanks to the pioneering work of Steve Thom and others, HBOT has...
The Physics of HBOT in COVID-19 Pneumonia (It’s Not Rocket Science)
Yesterday there was a news report on one of the clinical trials using hyperbaric oxygen therapy to reduce the need for intubation in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia.There is nothing magic about a hyperbaric chamber for COVID-19...
New treatment promises hope during pandemic
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - From Louisiana to Long Island, hyperbaric chambers, once used only to treat divers suffering from the bends, are increasingly being used to treat COVID-19 patients with surprising success.While the numbers are small,...
Dr. Paul Harch – The Oxygen Revolution: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy – Part 2
Dr. Paul Harch, a world-renowned leading expert in hyperbaric medicine joins Sound Health Radio for Part 2. Using his 30+ years of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) experience, Dr. Harch administers the most scientifically based and...
Max Minute: New Study From NYU Winthrop Hospital Suggests Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Could Be Alternative To Ventilator In Treating COVID-19
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — In the months since the first case of COVID-19 in New York, doctors have learned a tremendous amount about the virus. Perhaps most importantly is that the rush to incubate and put a patient on a ventilator was...
Recent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research
Cognitive enhancement of healthy older adults using hyperbaric oxygen: a randomized controlled trial
Abstract:More than half of community-dwelling individuals sixty years and older express concern about declining cognitive abilities. The current study’s aim was to evaluate hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) effect on cognitive functions...
The Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for COVID-19: A Review
AbstractThe recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic produced high and excessive demands for hospitalizations and equipment with depletion of critical care resources. The results of these extreme therapeutic efforts have been...
New Clinical Trial: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Non-ventilated COVID-19 Patients (HBOT)
Dr. Ory Wiesel of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY has begun a new clinical trial to study COVID-19 patients treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Non-ventilated COVID-19 Patients (HBOT).Brief Summary:This study is a...
Chinese Clinical Trial: Efficacy and Safety of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), researchers at the Sixth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, in Bejing, China and the Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan City, China have begun a clinical trial entitled, "Efficacy...
New Clinical Trial: Compassionate Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Thomas E Serena, MD of the SerenaGroup, Inc. with the Wound Treatment Center at Opelousas General Hospital in Louisiana have begun a new clinical trial to study COVID-19 patients treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy under...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Effect in COVID-19 RCT
Amir Hadanny, MD and Shai Efrati, MD of The Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at Shamir Medical Center (the largest hyperbaric treatment center worldwide) in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel has begun a new clinical trial to study...
New Clinical Trial: Management by Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of Patients With Hypoxaemic Pneumonia With SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) (OHB10cov)
Jean-Eric Blatteau, MD, PhD of Sainte Anne Military Teaching Hospital in Toulon, France has begun a new clinical trial to study the treatment of COVID-19 patients using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Several patients with hypoxaemic...
New Clinical Trial: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) as a Treatment for COVID-19 (COVID-19) Infection
Dr. Jeffery S Kuo is the Lead Investigator of the latest clinical trial studying the treatment of COVID-19 patients with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. The study will be based out of Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana....
Emergency Hyperbaric Oxygen for Respiratory Distress or Failure for COVID-19 Patients
April 2, 2020, Dr. David Lee posted a new clinical trial on the NIH Clinical Trials website to study the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to treat COVID-10. The study is listed as "Not Recruiting Yet," but has an estimated completion date...