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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

In: Hyperbaric Medicine

19 Feb 2009

The use of increased atmosphere pressure for medical therapy has intrigued many physicians, scientists, and lay persons for hundreds of years. Vague accounts of increased atmosphere pressures used on humans date to the fifth century BC. Henshaw, a British clergyman, built the first sealed chamber, termed the Domicilium, in 1662. This chamber compressed air (21% [...]

Oxygen Therapy Fact Sheet

In: Oxygen News| Oxygen Therapy

19 Feb 2009

Oxygen is an element, a gas, and a drug that can help people who have certain lung diseases. The cells in the body get their energy from the interaction of oxygen with food. The energy produced is used to do everything from breathing, to carrying out bodily functions, to going to the grocery [...]

Rehabilitation for Lung and Airway Disorders

In: Home Oxygen| Oxygen Bars

19 Feb 2009

Some people with chronic lung disease need only a brief period of oxygen therapy during an acute exacerbation of their lung disease. Others, in whom oxygen levels in the blood are consistently low, may require oxygen therapy on a daily basis. In these people, oxygen use improves survival. The more hours a day the oxygen [...]

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Defined

In: Hyperbaric Medicine

18 Feb 2009

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Defined
Hyper” means increased and “baric” relates to pressure. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) thus refers to intermittent treatment of the entire body with 100-percent oxygen at greater than normal atmospheric pressures. The earth’s atmosphere normally exerts approximately 15 pounds per square inch of pressure at sea level. That pressure is defined as one [...]

Oxygen Therapy – Definition, Purpose, Description and Preparation

In: Oxygen Bars

18 Feb 2009

Definition
Oxygen may be classified as an element, a gas, and a drug. Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen at concentrations greater than that in room air to treat or prevent hypoxemia (not enough oxygen in the blood). Oxygen delivery systems are classified as stationary, portable, or ambulatory. Oxygen can be administered by nasal cannula, [...]

Home Oxygen Living

In: Home Oxygen| Oxygen News

18 Feb 2009

Home Oxygen Therapy
More and more people are using oxygen therapy outside the hospital, permitting them to lead active, productive lives. People with asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, occupational lung disease, lung cancer, cystic fibrosis, or congestive heart failure may use oxygen therapy at home.

Oxygen Bars

In: Oxygen Bars| Oxygen News

18 Feb 2009

An oxygen bar is an establishment, or part of one, that sells oxygen for recreational use. Individual flavored scents (aromas) may be added to enhance the experience.
History
The trend started in the late 1990s in Japan and quickly spread east to California and Las Vegas. Oxygen bars can now be found in many venues such as [...]

Hyperbaric Medicine

In: Hyperbaric Medicine| Oxygen News

18 Feb 2009

Therapeutic principles
Several therapeutic principles are made use of in HBOT:
* The increased overall pressure is of therapeutic value when HBOT is used in the treatment of decompression sickness and air embolism.
* For many other conditions, the therapeutic principle of HBOT lies in a drastically increased partial pressure of oxygen in the tissues of the body. [...]

Nebulizer- An Overview

In: Portable Oxygen

18 Feb 2009

In medicine, a nebulizer is a device used to administer medication to people in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs. It is commonly used in treating cystic fibrosis, asthma, and other respiratory diseases.
There are different types of nebulizer, although the most common are the jet nebulizers, which are also called “atomizers”. Jet [...]

Oxygen Therapy- A Overview

In: Oxygen News| Portable Oxygen

18 Feb 2009

Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen as a therapeutic modality. Oxygen therapy benefits the patient by increasing the supply of oxygen to the lungs and thereby increasing the availability of oxygen to the body tissues.


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