Abstract
The potential beneficial effects of HBO in the treatment of patients, who are suffering from burns, has been first recognized by Ikeda et al. [1] in1968 when he treated several patients after a coal-mining accident suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning (CO-intox) and thermal burns. Patients suffering from CO-intoxication and thermal burns where treated with adjunctive HBO treatment. Although they were basically more severely injured than the patients injured at the same accident but did not have a CO-intox the “HBO-group” had markedly faster wound healing and less length of hospital stay (LHOS). Several animal studies were carried out showing faster wound healing after HBO treatment than the controls. In 1960 Gruber et al. [2] could proof that the tissue around full thickness burns is hypoxic and that by administering HBO the oxygen partial pressure could be raised.
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Andel, H. (2012). HBO and burns. In: Jeschke, M.G., Kamolz, LP., Sjöberg, F., Wolf, S.E. (eds) Handbook of Burns. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0348-7_25
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