Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy & COVID-19

When Dr. Morton Altwerger contracted COVID-19.  He feel extremely ill and ended up in the ER. The illness progressed and he was at risk for being ventilated.  Dr. Altwerger knew the mortality risks for being vented all too well, so he opted to...

Studies are showing that Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy (HBOT) can be successful in those who suffer with long-hauler COVID. Stephen Dickson, Pharmacist and Superintendent at Dickson Chemist said: “We have a lot of patients who have Multiple Sclerosis...

"Long haulers" are those who continue to suffer from COVID-19 symptoms long after the virus invaded their body.  Those still suffering - sometimes months and even a year later - are desperate for relief and continue to seek help in anyway they...

HBOT for COVID long hauler relief is becoming more and more popular. According to the FDA, clinical trials are underway to study hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a treatment for COVID-19. Jennifer Lind of Riverview said she's one of the success...

In our Jan. 27 KX Conversation, we were joined by Dr. Ted Fogarty, who is a huge proponent for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The hyperbaric treatment is FDA approved for treating a number of conditions — all having to do with basic ailments that would...

The Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) has started using hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for COVID-19 patients in critical condition, becoming the only hospital in the country using this technology. “We started on patients with COVID-19,...

GREENWICH, Connecticut (WABC) -- A hospital in Connecticut is one of six nationwide treating COVID-19 with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which officials say is emerging as an effective way to deliver oxygen to coronavirus patients. Greenwich Hospital...

From WLOS  ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- A longtime treatment for burn victims and survivors of traumatic brain injury may provide significant help for people trying to recover from some of the cognitive fallout caused by COVID-19. "Women could...

The excessive inflammation that COVID-19 can cause ended up starving this patient’s fingers and toes from oxygen, due to inflammation of the small blood vessels.  The patient was referred to a clinic that specializes in hyperbaric oxygen therapy to...

Featured in Fortune Magazine:In a world full of acronyms—NASA, scuba, and, yes, COVID, among others—it may seem imponderable that one of the most well-known has gone largely unmentioned during discussions of the novel coronavirus. I...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, doctors at...

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...

The therapy aims to avoid artificial lung ventilation, according the hospital directorMOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. Moscow’s Research Institute of Emergency Care (Sklifosovsky Institute) has begun experiments to use hyperbaric oxygenation...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Christus Health is trying something new to treat COVID-19 by using hyperbaric oxygen therapy to sustain a COVID-19 patient through oxygen deficiency.Hyperbaric oxygen therapy isn't new but, using it for this purpose...

Listen to WCHV's Joe Thomas in-the-morning April 29th interview with Dr. Paul Harch on the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, or HBOT on patients with the Spanish Flu and how it has been successfully used on COVID-19 patients today....

From Caroline Fife MD.comRacing to Find Better Treatments for COVID-19 PneumoniaThe COVID-19 pandemic, and the severity with which COVID-19 pneumonia has affected some patients, is spurring many clinical trials. Many (if not most) of...

Listen to Dr Ted Fogarty talk to Dena Marie on Lift Your Spirits (WKKNW, Bellevue, WA) about the benefits of glutathione and hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat COVID-19.

Listen to Dr. Paul Harch discuss the double standard in medicine, randomized controlled trials versus evidence based medicine as it relates to the use of ventilators, hydroxyclhoriquine, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the treatment...

Hyberbaric Oxygen Treatments have been used for years to treat issues such as anemia, bubbles of air in your blood vessels, and carbon monoxide, just to name a few (according to the Mayo Clinic).But now, it's being used in the fight...

Dr. Paul Harch shares his thoughts on off-label treatment of COVID-19 with HBOT as well as the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved protocol used for the study he is conducting with the Louisiana State University.For months, the...