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Please click here to learn more about the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at the Shock Trauma Center.

Center for Hyperbaric Medicine

PCS Manager: Ben Grimes, RN

Established in 1965, the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at Shock Trauma is internationally recognized for its leadership and expertise in the clinical application of hyperbaric therapy. With the only multiplace hyperbaric chamber in the State of Maryland, The Center can accommodate up to 23 patients and care providers per dive.

Conditions that are responsive to hyperbaric oxygen therapy include:

Gas/air embolism and decompression illness
Carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation
Clostridial and nonclostridial gas gangrene, including necrotizing infections
Crush injury and acute traumatic ischemia
Compromise skin grafts and flaps
Acute blood loss anemia (particularly in Jehovah’s Witnesses)
Osteomyelitis
Radiation tissue damage
Enhancement of healing in selected wound problems (such as in nonhealing ulcers in patients with diabetes or peripheral vascular disease)

This page was last updated on: June 19, 2007.

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