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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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Hi Jo,
The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society is made up of phsyicians who learned HBO treating deep-sea divers with "the bends" and learned a little more when it was discovered that HBO saves lives following carbon monoxide poisoning, and even later that it could prevent amputations in end-stage diabetes.
It is also made up of physicians who were attracted to HBO's potential beginning in the 1970s. With funding similar to that of RSD, their research has produced some really stuff and/or showed that the counter-intuitive can sometimes be right.
Right now it is about as dead-end as you can find in medicine: Specialize in HBO and tell your wife you'll have to wait a while before paying cash for that Beemer. You can still buy one, but not for cash.
Everybody know's they're doomed, because the pharmaceutical empire can't figure out a better replacement they can market and make billions on. It has been derisively referred to as "a cure in search of a disease"; the FDA and HHS have so severely restricted its use in accredited hospitals that it never amortizes itself but must be kept on because people sometimes suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Yet HBO has achieved incredible popularity among the public. Enough so that specularors see it as a way to make a fast buck. FDA standards outside of accredited hospitals are as similar as 1870s Boston and 1870s Dodge City. I suspect FDA hopes for some sort of disaster so that it can shut down every chamber in the country. The FDA is totally owned by Pharma.
Oxygen toxicity may be a bad way to go, but I imagine it's quick. More important; it is rarer than hen's teeth. Even assuming my extreme example of someone coming over from MickyDee's, he she has to know how to read and follow directions. Even the greediest speculators know they will lose thier *** if they kill someone.
I believe the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society have established standards for accreditation that make sense; they are the medical professionals best able to set these standards because they know what the risks are. If I were able to do the physical activities necessary to access HBO, I would not consider a chamber that wasn't so accredited.
I will talk about cost v profit for chanber operators and about cost v benefit for the consume, and lots of other stuff, on my upcoming HBO post, but I wanted to ease any potential fears of anyone living near a free-standing (non-hospital) chamber that they don't need to fear poisonous clouds of oxygen, and if people started showing serious problems following HBO at whatever current staff levels exist, we would have at least heard about it...Vic
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