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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Enhances Tissue Healing (Visit this link)
Currents: Fall 2002, Volume 3, Number 4 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy enhances tissue healing Zlatko Anguelov (in collaboration with Eric Greensmith, M.D.) History: Compressed air has been used as a therapeutic tool since medieval times with variable success and without any knowledge of what may cause its beneficial effect on disease. In the mid-1950s hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) came into use in the U.S. and the Netherlands, especially for conducting surgical operations under pressure. Clinicians noted that patients were less cyanotic after anesthesia in a hyperbaric chamber and since, nitrous oxide became a powerful anesthetic when administered under increased pressure. HBO use declined in the early 1970s because of lack of serious research on the mechanisms of action and appropriate indications. In this country a revival of the field occurred in the late 1970s when the Undersea Medical Society became involved in clinical hyperbarics, and a textbook on HBO therapy was published. University of Iowa
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