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     Hyperbaric Facility Safety is a complex text that covers a broad range of topics, including safe engineering design practices, regulatory guidance, training, staffing, maintenance, and operational procedures, among others. Tragic accidents in the international hyperbaric medicine community have focused attention on the need for more comprehensive information on this topic. This book was written with the objective of creating a comprehensive source to assist established hyperbaric programs, serve as a safety primer for those developing programs, and help cultivate the mindset vital to maintaining a safe environment for staff and patients. The information contained in this book applies to operational and clinical hyperbaric facilities.

Table of Contents

Section I.  General Considerations

Chapter 1.     Hyperbaric Chamber Types

Chapter 2.     Considerations for Future Hyperbaric Chamber Design

Chapter 3.     Regulations

Chapter 4.     Development of a Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center

Chapter 5.     Training, Staffing, and Utilization

Section II.  Hyperbaric Systems

Chapter 1.     Pressurization Systems

Chapter 2.     Piping Systems

Chapter 3.     Breathing Gas Systems

Chapter 4.     Electrical Systems

Chapter 5.     Fire Suppression Systems

Chapter 6.     Ancillary Support Systems

Section III.  Hyperbaric System Maintenance

Chapter 1.     How to Establish a Hyperbaric Facility Maintenance Program

Section IV.  Fire in the Hyperbaric Environment

Chapter 1.     Hyperbaric Chamber Fires:  To What Extent is the Problem?

Chapter 2.     Role of Oxygen in Hyperbaric Chamber Fire Safety

Chapter 3.     Static Electricity

Section V.  Hyperbaric Mishap Analysis

Chapter 1.     How Accidents Happen

Chapter 2.     Hyperbaric Fire Risk Assessments and Failure Analysis

Chapter 3.     Chamber Accidents:  A Morbidity/Mortality Survey of Chamber Accidents Over the Past 75 Years

Chapter 4.     Hyperbaric Incident Monitoring Study (HIMS)

Chapter 5.     Japan's Hyperbaric Mishap Reporting System

Section VI.  A Practical Approach to Hyperbaric Safety

Chapter 1.     How to Manage Your Hyperbaric Facility Safety Program

Chapter 2.     Decompression Sickness in Inside Attendants

Chapter 3.     Emergency Procedures

Chapter 4.     Evaluating Equipment and Materials for use in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Environment:  The Clinical Hyperbaric Evaluation and Testing (CHET) Program

Chapter 5.     Patient Education

Chapter 6.     How Administration Affects Facility Safety

Chapter 7.     Hyperbaric Therapy in Remote Locations:  What Standards are Acceptable?

Section VII.  Contributing Authors

INDEX