Title :
Use of localized hyperbaric oxygen therapy in wound healing
Author :
Feinberg, Barry N.
Author_Institution :
Center for Eng. Anal., Northbrook, IL, USA
Abstract :
To reduce the cost of high-pressure oxygen treatment, an inexpensive system for applying a form of localized hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been developed. An experiment which applies localized hyperbaric oxygen to wounds made in the tails of laboratory rats is described. The initial results indicate that oxygen under hyperbaric pressure does penetrate the many cellular layers of the wound being treated
Keywords :
biomechanics; patient treatment; cellular layers penetration; hyperbaric pressure; inexpensive system; laboratory rats; localised hyperbaric O2 therapy; tail wounds; wound healing; Biochemistry; Blood; Costs; Instruments; Medical treatment; Oxygen; Personnel; Strips; Tail; Wounds;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96380