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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

HBOT: The Office of Inspector General’s Most Wanted?

March 23, 2017
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA In 1950, J. Edgar Hoover published the first edition of the FBI’s most wanted list. Since that time, no less than 512 fugitives have been featured. Many ...

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Treatment of Second- and Third-Degree Burns

January 23, 2014
By Bruce E. Ruben MD In order to understand the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to heal burns, it is first important to understand the four burn classifications. ...

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy's Newest Approved Indication

November 11, 2014
By Lindsay D. Andronaco RN, BSN, CWCN, WOC, DAPWCA, FAACWS Sudden hearing loss affects 5-20 individuals per 100,000, which equates to about 4,000 new cases each year in the U.S. Idiopathic Sudden ...

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: "Where Have All the Chambers Gone?"

February 19, 2015
by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Pete Seeger died a year ago last January at the age of 94. Reading a tribute to the folk singer, I ran across his most memorable tune, "Where have all th...

Identifying and Qualifying Patients for Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment

August 19, 2013
By Christine Shettel, RN, BSN, WCC, DAPWCA, PWRC Hyperbaric medicine has been used in wound care for over 50 years. As wound care professionals, we are saving patient’s lives, and preserving limbs ...

Indications for the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)

April 17, 2014
By Lindsay D. Andronaco RN, BSN, CWCN, WOC, DAPWCA, FAACWS The use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), according to Medicare, is a modality in which the entire body is exposed to oxygen under incr...

Is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Effective?

April 19, 2013
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Parents of most children growing up in the sixties read them Winnie the Pooh. My father, a Woodrow Wilson fellow in English literature, read us Homer’s O...

Making Safety Your Job: Courses and Resources in Hyperbaric Medicine

July 16, 2015
By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC I was thinking back to the days when I worked as a hyperbaric technologist. Hyperbaric medicine has significantly evolved over the past decade...

Opinion: Financial Stewardship in Hospitals and Wound Clinics

February 6, 2020
By Lydia Corum RN MSN CWCN The times are changing in the world of wound care. There used to be a time when there were no problems with reimbursements, as long as the doctor wrote the order. Today, ...

Outpatient Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Encouragement for Your Good Work

February 27, 2019
by Kelly Byrd-Jenkins, CWS What you do in the outpatient center is not easy, and not everyone is doing it. In many cases, they'd prefer to let us decipher this challenging demographic's path to hea...
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