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Hyperbaric Oxygenation  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapies
  • Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
  • Oxygenation, Hyperbaric
  • Oxygen Therapies, Hyperbaric
  • Oxygen Therapy, Hyperbaric
  • Therapies, Hyperbaric Oxygen
  • Therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen

Note

  • coord IM with disease /ther (IM), not /drug ther

Scope note

  • The therapeutic intermittent administration of oxygen in a chamber at greater than sea-level atmospheric pressures (three atmospheres). It is considered effective treatment for air and gas embolisms, smoke inhalation, acute carbon monoxide poisoning, caisson disease, clostridial gangrene, etc. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992). The list of treatment modalities includes stroke.

History note

  • 65(64)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006931

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