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  2. Not All Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapies Are Created Equal - AOL

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    Doctors explain what hyperbaric oxygen therapy is, what it is used to treat, health benefits, risks. ... The patients may not be given a risk assessment before the treatment or monitored for side ...

  3. Oxygen toxicity - Wikipedia

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    A possible side effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the initial or further development of cataracts, which are an increase in opacity of the lens of the eye which reduces visual acuity, and can eventually result in blindness. This is a rare event, associated with lifetime exposure to raised oxygen concentration, and may be under-reported as ...

  4. Hyperbaric medicine - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbaric medicine includes hyperbaric oxygen treatment, which is the medical use of oxygen at greater than atmospheric pressure to increase the availability of oxygen in the body; [8] and therapeutic recompression, which involves increasing the ambient pressure on a person, usually a diver, to treat decompression sickness or an air embolism by reducing the volume and more rapidly eliminating ...

  5. Hyperoxia - Wikipedia

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    The highest risk of hyperoxia is in hyperbaric oxygen therapy, where it is a high probability side effect of the treatment for more serious conditions, and is considered an acceptable risk as it can be managed effectively without apparent long term effects. [9]

  6. What NOT to Do If You’re Bitten By a Brown Recluse - AOL

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    Another option for rare cases in which a bite has escalated in severity is hyperbaric oxygen therapy. This treatment increases the blood oxygen level, which helps to slow the rate at which tissue ...

  7. Decompression sickness - Wikipedia

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    Immediate treatment with 100% oxygen, followed by recompression in a hyperbaric chamber, will in most cases result in no long-term effects. However, permanent long-term injury from DCS is possible. Three-month follow-ups on diving accidents reported to DAN in 1987 showed 14.3% of the 268 divers surveyed had ongoing symptoms of Type II DCS, and ...