Concept information
Preferred term
Hyperbaric Oxygenation
Type
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Definition
- The therapeutic intermittent administration of oxygen in a chamber at greater than sea-level atmospheric pressures (three atmospheres). It is considered effective treatment for air and gas embolisms, smoke inhalation, acute carbon monoxide poisoning, caisson disease, clostridial gangrene, etc. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992). The list of treatment modalities includes stroke.
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Oxygenation, Hyperbaric
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- ethics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- instrumentation (Qualifier)
- methods (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- statistics & numerical data (Qualifier)
- trends (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Oxygénothérapie hyperbare
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Thérapie par oxygène hyperbare
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-D0Z3JD4N-1
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