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A hyperbaric chamber is a small vessel which can be used as a diving chamber, or can be used on land to increase air pressure. It can be used to medically treat divers who were surfaced too quickly by re-pressurizing them to force the nitrogen in their blood to return to solution. Following this, they are decompressed slowly, which keeps the nitrogen in the blood in solution.
Hyperbaric chambers can also be used in a medical technique known as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). This therapy has been shown to positively affect cerebral palsey, athough the mechanism is still as of yet undetermined.
Some early experiments with Multiple Sclerosis patients showed that HBOT may help improve bowel and bladder control. However, a review by the Cochrane Collaboration discovered, after ten trials and 21 analyses, that there was "no consistent evidence to confirm a beneficial effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and [they] do not believe routine use is justified"
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How does a hyperbaric chamber work?
A hyperbaric chamber is a special chamber that they put divers into to help them cure something they can get from diving called "The Bends". When you put the diver in the chamber it increases the pressure surrounding the diver's body. The high pressure forces forces the gas bubbles to re-dissolve back into the blood and tissues. By very slowly decreasing the pressure back to normal, the gas in the persons body slowly escapes.
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Who invented hyperbaric oxygen therapy?
The first person to design and arrange for the construction of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in the United States is Dr Izaak F A van Elk. His research, and the first chamber built, was at Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois in the early 1960s. Dr van Elk is originally from the Netherlands. Dr van Elk, a cardiologist, designed and arranged for the construction of a hyperbaric oxygen tank to be built in the hopes that this would help cure patients suffering from a heart attack (coronary occlusion.) Dr van Elk and his team also tried it for patients suffering from a stroke and patients with dimentia. The results were not as effective as they had hoped, and they abandoned the hyperbaric oxygen research any further in the area of cardiology. Shortly thereafter, another physician in Wisconsin or Minneapolis followed up on Dr van Elk's research. This information can be verified by contacting Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois which still has a hyperbaric oxygen unit at their facility.
