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     With this new updated and expanded Second/Revised Edition, the best-selling Hyperbaric Medicine Practice solidifies its position as the standard in the field of hyperbaric oxygen. Written by a select team of accomplished specialists, this edition has been expanded with over 200 pages on treatment procedures, techniques and acceptable practice in hyperbaric medicine. Main Sections include: Hyperbaric Oxygenation—General Considerations, Disorders Approved for Treatment with HBO, and Investigation Areas.

Table of Contents

Section I.  Hyperbaric Oxygenation--General Considerations

Chapter 1.     A History of Hyperbaric Medicine

Chapter 2.     The Physics of Diving and Hyperbaric Pressures

Chapter 3.     The Physiological Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygenation

Chapter 4.     Oxygen Toxicity

Chapter 5.     Contraindications and Side Effects to Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment

Chapter 6.     The Monoplace Chamber

Chapter 7.     The Multiplace Chamber

Chapter 8.     Economics of Hyperbaric Medicine

Chapter 9.     Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Oxygenation

Chapter 10.   Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen in Infectous Diseases:  Basic Mechanisms

Chapter 11.   Management of Critically Ill Patients in the Monoplace Hyperbaric Chamber

Chapter 12.   The Use of Drugs Under Pressure

Chapter 13.   Hyperbaric Medicine in Pediatric Practice

Chapter 14.   Myringotomy

Chapter 15.   Management of Complications in Hyperbaric Treatment

Chapter 16.   Hyperbaric Nursing

Chapter 17.   Wound Management:  Best Chronic Wound Care Practices for the Hyperbaric Practicioner

Section II.  Disorders Approved for Treatment With HBO

Chapter 18.   Decompression Sickness

Chapter 19.   Gas Embolism

Chapter 20.   Carbon Monoxide and Cyanide Poisoning

Chapter 21.   Gas Gangrene

Chapter 22.   Selected Aerobic and Anaerobic Soft Tissue Infections

Chapter 23.   The Use of HBO in the Treatment of Osteomyelitis

Chapter 24.   Sternal Wound Infections, Dehiscence, and Sternal Osteomyelitis:  The Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Chapter 25.   HBO in Intracranial Abscess

Chapter 26.   Use of Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen in the Management of Fungal Disease

Chapter 27.   Radiation Therapy

Chapter 28.   Pelvic Radiation Necrosis and Radiation Cystitis

Chapter 29.   HBO and Exceptional Blood Loss Anemia

Chapter 30.   Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome, and Other Acute Traumatic Peripheral Ischemias

Chapter 31.   The Microcirculation and Ischemia-Reperfusion:  Basic Mechanisms of Hyperbaric Oxygen

Chapter 32.   HBO in Skin Grafts and Flaps

Chapter 33.   Enhancement of Healing in Selected Problem Wounds

Chapter 34.   Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Thermal Burns

Section III.  Investigational Areas

Chapter 35.   Treatment of the Brown Recluse Spider (Loxsceles Reclusa) Bite With Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Chapter 36.   The Treatment of Severe Head Injury with Hyperbaric Oxygen

Chapter 37.   Hyperbaric Oxygen in the Treatment of Hansen's Disease

Chapter 38.   HBO in Acute Myocardial Infarction in Animals and Man

Chapter 39.   Femoral Head Necrosis and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Chapter 40.   HBO in Adhesive or Incomplete Ileus Associated with Abdominal Surgery

Chapter 41.   Ancillary Treatment

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