Bernd Fischer / Siegfried Lehrl / Erwin Braun / Kewal K. Jain
Handbook of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- 1988
- Taschenbuch
- 372 Seiten
- ISBN 9783540183440
Hyperbaric medicine involves the use of barometric pressure great er than that at sea level for the treatment of diseases. The term makes no distinction between air, oxygen or any other gas used as a medium of compression. Hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) refers to the use of pure oxygen for breathing in a hyperbaric chamber via a mask or similar device or breathing freely in a monoplace chamber pressurized with oxygen. HBO is an intermittent, high dose oxygen inhalation therapy. We have confined ourselves to the subject of HBO therapy and have not included oxygen therapy at normobaric pressures. With the exception of decompression sick ness we
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