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This course has been reviewed and approved by the AMA, and is jointly sponsored by the UHMS. Dick Rutkowski has been the program director of the Hyperbarics International course for 33 years. He has also been the Co-Director of the NOAA UHMS course for 33 years.  The hyperbaric chamber operator does a lot more than just turn valves, they are an integral part of the hyperbaric facility team. The training required to become a hyperbaric chamber operator can be very complex, especially for anyone who does not have prior familiarity with scuba diving and/or medical terminology. 

http://www.hyperbaricsinternational.com/hyperbaric-chamber-operator/

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is defined as systemic treatment in which the entire patient is placed inside a pressurized chamber and breathes 100% oxygen under a pressure greater than 1 atmosphere (atm). It is used to treat certain diseases and conditions that may improve when an increased partial pressure of oxygen is present in perfused tissues.

https://www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/100_199/0172.html

Medical Necessity  Aetna considers systemic hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) medically necessary for any of the following conditions (with usual medically necessary number of sessions (dives) in parentheses):  Acute air or gas embolism (up to 10 sessions); Acute carbon monoxide poisoning (up to 5 sessions or clinical plateau); Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency (i.e., compartment syndrome) requiring emergent surgical intervention (e.g., surgical or catheter directed embolectomy or bypass surgery), with imaging documentation of embolus/thrombus (e.g., MR, angiogram) (three treatments in the first 24 hours then twice daily until tissue at risk subsides); etc 

https://www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/100_199/0172.html

Hyperbaric Medicine-  is medical treatment in which an ambient pressure greater than sea level atmospheric pressure is a necessary component. The treatment comprises hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), the medical use of oxygen at an ambient pressure higher than atmospheric pressure, and therapeutic recompression for decompression illness, intended to reduce the injurious effects of systemic gas bubbles by physically reducing their size and providing improved conditions for elimination of bubbles and excess dissolved gas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_medicine

The General Hospital of Mexico, Dr. Eduardo Liceaga has one of the largest Hyperbaric Chambers in the country, which has been working for 10 years for the patients of this hospital, as well as those referred to it by other institutions of the Health Sector.  Not all patients with these pathologies are candidates for this treatment, this will be determined through a comprehensive evaluation of each case. 

Hyperbaric oxygen also helps to treat sequelae of oncological treatments. Hemorrhagic cystitis is one of the most common in children suffering from leukemia, where this condition has been reversed in 100 percent of the cases treated by the General Hospital of Mexico Hyperbaric Chamber Service

https://www.gob.mx/busqueda?utf8=✓#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=hyperbaric&gsc.sort=

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