Korean J Anesthesiol.  1978 Dec;11(4):371-376.

A Clinical Study of Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy

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  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea.

Abstract

Authors observed the 242 patients who were treated with hyperbaric oxygenation therapy from September, 1972 to May, 1978 at our department of B.N.U.H. The results were as follows. 1) Sex distribution was 106 male and 136 female, and the age group was between 10 and 39 year old, which occupied 71. l% of the total cases (172 cases). 2) With regard to distribution by month, 206 cases were in November to April, using coal briquette as the main fuel of heating systems. 3) The patients with CO intoxication were 232 cases(95. 9%) and the other 10 cases included Buergers disease, gas gangrene, sudden deafness and uncommon dermatologic disorder's such as scleroderma and pyoderma gangrenosum. 4) 188 cases(77. 7%) were treated by one time hyperbaric oxygenation therapy and 30 cases(12. 4%) twice, reflecting that most cases were able to be treated only once or twice by hyperbaric oxygenation therapy. Therapy 10 to 49 times was applied to Buerger's disease and sudden deafness, and over 50 times to 2 cases of dermatologic disorders. 5) We could not notice convulsion due to oxygen toxicity, a complication of hyperbaric oxygenation, but tinnitus and aspiration pneumonia were observed in 6 cases(2. 5%).


MeSH Terms

Clinical Study*
Coal
Female
Gas Gangrene
Hearing Loss, Sudden
Heating
Hot Temperature
Humans
Hyperbaric Oxygenation*
Male
Oxygen
Pneumonia, Aspiration
Pyoderma Gangrenosum
Seizures
Sex Distribution
Thromboangiitis Obliterans
Tinnitus
Coal
Oxygen
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