Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy & COVID-19
Keep up to date on the latest news & research on the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of COVID-19KX Conversation: Dr. Ted Fogarty, a radiologist and proponent for hyperbaric oxygen therapy
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...
SPMC Pioneers in Using Hyperbaric for Covid-19
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,...
Connecticut coronavirus update: Greenwich Hospital using hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat COVID
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...
North Carolina doctor thinks this treatment could help COVID-19 patients with brain fog
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...
How HBO the Treatment not the TV Network Could Help Doctors Fight 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...
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...
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...
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...
Moscow hospital uses hyperbaric oxygenation to treat COVID-19 patients
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...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for wound care being used to treat some COVID-19 patients
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...
Interview with Dr. Harch on COVID-19 on WCHV’s Joe Thomas in-the-morning
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....
To Tell or Not to Tell About Encouraging Results for COVID-19 Treatments Under Investigation?
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...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for COVID-19 – Its Working
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.
HBOT for COVID-19: The Double Standard in Medicine
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...
Opelousas General Using Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment in Fight Against COVID-19
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...
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...
Using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Coronavirus Lung Infection: The time for more HBOT treatment and studies is now
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...
Why Hyperbaric Oxygen for Coronavirus Works.
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...
How to Do the Right Thing Ethically Regarding HBOT for COVID-19 Pneumonia
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...
ACHM Webinar-COVID-19 and HBOT: The science of COVID-19 and application of HBOT
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...
HBOT in a Tyson COVID-19 Outbreak, Part 4: I Can’t Stop Smiling
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...
HBOT in a Tyson COVID-19 Outbreak, Part 3
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...
HBOT in a Tyson COVID-19 Outbreak, Part 2: “It’s Incredible”
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...