Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy & COVID-19

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,...

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...

HBOT for coronavirus pneumonia and respiratory failure is now being applied to patients around the world clinically and in experimental trials. Dr. Harch explains how it works by answering the question "What is HBOT?" and showing that...

What is “Off-label” Use of HBOT?Hyperbaric oxygen chambers are medical devices that are cleared for marketing and use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 13 indications, based on a list originally compiled by the Undersea and...

Part 1 Part 2Dr. Harch reviews the Chinese experience of HBOT with COVID-19 infection based on extensive communication with the treating Chinese doctors and the evolution of his presentation of this information on the...

5th in a series of emails from a physician treating COVID-19 patients near the Tyson processing plant. Day 5: N = 10Significant for so many reasons. First, we have the patient volume to show HBOT is working. Second, the volume of...

4th in a series of emails from a physician treating COVID-19 patients near the Tyson processing plant. N = 7 on Day 4Day 4 and we have started treatments on 7 patients.The day started poorly. At 8am I walked into the ICU, where 8...

Second email from a physician treating COVID-19 patients near the Tyson processing plant.Day 2: We Haven’t Seen Anything Like This IllnessI would love to give details about how absolutely incredible my experience is in this city, but...

From Sarah Courtney, Minister for Health for Tasmania The health, safety and wellbeing of Tasmanians is our highest priority as we continue to deal with COVID-19. From tomorrow, the new Department of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, with...

An email from a physician treating COVID-19 patients near the Tyson processing plant. It is RealWe treated our first patient last night.Patient #1 is a middle-aged Hispanic male from the Tyson packing plant. He has no co-morbidities....

Listen to Dr. Ted Fogarty make his case to Trump for his COVID-19 solution to utlize cargo jets as mild hyperbaric chambers to treat COVID-19 on a mass scale....

Listen to Dr. Thomas Serena MD, Dr. Kerry Thibodeaus MD, and Marcus Speyrer RN share their experience treating COVID-19 patients with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy at Opelousas General Hospital in Louisiana with the Association for the...