Decompression Sickness | Wound Care

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat decompression sickness in scuba divers. During these treatments, you breathe pressurized oxygen while you lie inside a clear plastic tube. This helps your body remove the nitrogen that can build up during a dive and make you sick. Side effects from the treatment are rare.

Hyperbaric [hahy-per-bar-ik] oxygen therapy is a treatment for many kinds of illnesses and injuries. During this treatment, you breathe pure oxygen in a special chamber where the air pressure is two or three times higher than normal. This lets your lungs take in more oxygen than they normally can and helps your body remove extra nitrogen.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is usually considered safe and side effects are rare. However, there are some risks associated with the high air pressure used. These risks include:

• Ruptured eardrum
• Collapsed lung
• Temporary nearsightedness (not being able to clearly see things that are far away). This usually goes away in a few days or weeks.

Another risk of hyperbaric oxygen therapy is seizure caused by having too much oxygen in your body.

During scuba diving, nitrogen builds up inside your body. When you come up, the nitrogen can form bubbles in your joints, muscles, skin, and other parts of your body. This causes decompression sickness or “the bends.” Decompression sickness has many symptoms, including pain, numbness, weakness, nausea, and vomiting. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can treat decompression sickness and help your symptoms.

You should not drink alcohol within 8 hours of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Because oxygen can cause a fire if there is a spark, you should not bring a lighter or any device with a battery in it into the hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment area.

Avoid skin care products with petroleum jelly before treatment. They are also a fire hazard around oxygen.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy usually is given at a special outpatient clinic. You will lie on a table inside a long clear plastic tube. The tube will be sealed and filled with pressurized oxygen. You might feel popping or fullness in your ears, similar to the way you feel taking off in an airplane. If this happens, it can help to swallow or yawn.

The clinic staff will be able to see and hear you during your treatment and you can talk to them. You should try to relax and breathe normally. Your treatment will take between 30 minutes and 2 hours. You might feel tired or lightheaded afterwards. This should go away soon.

Depending on how serious your decompression sickness is, you might need only one hyperbaric oxygen treatment or several treatments.

If your decompression sickness was not serious, you will probably be able to scuba dive again. However, some people with serious decompression sickness should not continue scuba diving. A doctor will evaluate you to decide if you can scuba dive again and how long you need to wait before diving.

After a hyperbaric oxygen treatment, you should:

• Get plenty of rest for the next 24 hours.
• Drink lots of fluids; avoid alcohol and caffeinated drinks such as coffee, tea, and colas.
• Avoid taking hot showers or tub baths for 24 hours.
• Do not participate in any strenuous activities for 48 hours.
• Do not fly in any private or commercial aircraft for at least 24 hours

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Hyperbaric chambers: Not just for the bends

• Published

  2 February 2013

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The centre’s main chamber is used to treat up to nine people at time

By Andrew Segal

BBC News, Devon and Cornwall

The Diving Diseases Research Centre in Plymouth has had its work highlighted recently, after members of a family in Cornwall with carbon monoxide poisoning were treated in its hyperbaric chambers.

The chambers are most associated with treating divers with decompression sickness – the bends – if they surface too quickly, resulting in nitrogen bubbles forming in blood.

Although it was founded in 1980 “with divers in mind”, staff at the charity, which treats people with 100% oxygen in pressurised chambers, are not just standing around waiting for divers to get in trouble.

The charity has six chambers – four in Plymouth and two at a sister facility in Newport in Gwent – and Plymouth’s chambers can treat up to 10 patients on a weekday with a variety of conditions.

‘Bump starts’

The treatment involves patients spending two hours in a 100% oxygen atmosphere in a sealed chamber usually pressurised to the equivalent of 14m (45ft) under water, or 2.4 atmospheres, centre medical director Dr Christine Cridge said.

It could be pressurised to the equivalent of 30m (100ft), she added.

Patients breathe in pure oxygen instead of the 21% found in normal air and the pressure increases the amount of oxygen that dissolves into the bloodstream and the body’s tissues.

Image caption,

Patients are given oxygen through helmets in the main chamber, the Krug

In the case of the bends, this results in nitrogen bubbles which form in blood being squeezed into a solution blood can absorb.

In carbon monoxide poisoning cases, the oxygen-rich environment “bumps” the poisonous gas, which prevents blood from absorbing oxygen, off the oxygen-carrying red blood cells.

In other cases, the pure oxygen may not be a cure in itself for what is being treated but could often be a “piece of the jigsaw puzzle”, Dr Cridge said.

Such cases included helping patients with skin, bone or tissue conditions after their body’s own healing process had “stalled”, she said.

Conditions treated include chronic non-healing wounds, such as ulcers as a result of diabetes, through to radiotherapy-damaged tissue or bone in cancer patients, or even flesh-eating bugs which do not like an oxygen atmosphere.

In the case of flesh-eating necrotising fasciitis, Dr Cridge said: “We can’t resurrect dead tissue, but we can prop up what remains and bump-start its healing. ”

“Bumping” or “bump-starting” are phrases used a noticeable number of times by Dr Cridge, who first got interested in the field after time with a diving club at university.

Such bump-starting can see pure oxygen providing extra fuel for the immune system’s white blood cells and the body’s building blocks for new cells.

“In certain patients, it can encourage growth”, she said.

Another use of the oxygen treatment has been assisting radiotherapy by “feeding” tumours, which are often faster growing than other cells, making them making them easier to target, she added.

The Krug

As to the actual treatment, if anyone has the idea such chambers are little bigger than a medieval iron maiden, the centre’s largest, the Krug, easily defeats preconceptions.

Built in 1990, the chamber, named after the company that designed it, is 6m (20ft) long with a 2.4m (8ft) diameter.

It can hold up to 12 people, though it is only used to treat a maximum of nine, with two staff also inside to monitor the process.

Emergency cases can be wheeled straight in, as it can cope with intensive care cases and offers “more room to work in”, Dr Cridge said.

Image caption,

Staff can pressurise the chambers to the equivalent of 30m under water

“One older patient commented it was bigger than a World War II tank. We’ve also been told it’s the size of a small bus.

“They are best known for treating the bends and people have turned up with swimming costumes before, not realising they’ll be dry.”

However, you do not just fill a 25 cubic metre chamber with 100% oxygen.

While the entire chamber is filled with compressed air, the oxygen is actually ingested via transparent plastic helmets which are sealed around the neck.

“It means people can read or watch a DVD,” Dr Cridge said.

Dealing with boredom is a serious consideration. While a diver might have just two or three sessions, other patients may be in for two hours a day, five days a week, for up to eight weeks.

The centre also has two smaller 3m (10ft) by 1. 8m (6ft) diameter chambers, which employ helmets.

Its smallest chamber resembles a 2m (6ft 6in) long transparent plastic tube which is about 1m (3ft 3in) in diameter.

Unlike the other chambers, this is filled completely with oxygen, allowing treatment for anyone who cannot use the helmets because of wounds or other considerations.

The centre also has wound treatment rooms with specialist staff, as well as facilities for training in hyperbaric medicine.

It also works with universities on research projects.

As to divers who have been treated at the centre for what can be a fatal condition, Dr Cridge said: “It rarely puts them off.

“At least 90% of divers will go into the water again, with many of them asking as they’re being wheeled in or out: ‘When can I go back?’.”

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