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HEALING CHAMBER - DISCOVERY HEALTH SPECIAL

On September 14th and 21st at the Discovery Health Channel will be airing an hour-long program entitled, "The Healing Chamber". The Program features five segments tracing the history of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments ("HBOT") from traditional applications to newer medical applications. The Healing Chamber sheds light on the argument of treatment of common pathologies. In the process viewers see the use of this therapy from the perspective of the patient.

Diving Medicine: The program begins with the most historical and traditional use of HBOT, decompression illness. The producers document the diving accident and treatment of an experienced sport SCUBA diver off Santa Catalina Island, an island approximately 30 miles offshore from Southern California. Viewers are enlightened by the discussion of treatment of hypoxia.

Burn: HBOT is used for third degree burn victims reducing scarring by 90%, reducing recovery period by 30%, and reducing the probability for infections.

Infections Diseases:

Flesh-Eating Bacteria: HBOT is applied to a patient with a serious case of necrotizing facilities, (flesh-eating bacteria). With aggressive surgery, antibiotics, and HBOT the patient is taken from a high risk for mortality to salvaging life and limb.
Pneumococcal Sepsis: HBOT is applied to a patient with an advanced case of pneumococcal sepsis, and associated advancing gangrene of the hands and feet. HBOT is successfully applied after surgery and antibiotics fail to halt the disease.

Equine chronic wounds: HBOT is used as a generic drug for wound repair spanning the mammalian world from humans to horses. In one of the most progressive veterinary practices in the United States, pioneer veterinarian Dr. Doug Herthel applies HBOT to a large non-healing flank wound on one of his horses. The horse's wound eventually is closed and the horse returned to its owners in good health.

Note: HBOT is now being employed in the salvage of expensive birth-injured thoroughbred foals in Lexington, Kentucky and Florida, similar to the human application in 1963 in England demonstrating the use of HBOT to treat hypoxia.

Chronic Pediatric Brain Injury: The show finishes with a strong segment showing the principle of application of HBOT to treat similar tissue pathology, namely, chronic ischemic/hypoxic brain injury in children. Clinics in California, and especially Santa Monica, are featured treating a variety of brain-injured children. The program finishes with a powerful roundtable discussion with the parents of these brain-injured children relating the improvements from HBOT they have seen in their development and abilities.