Hyperbaric Oxygen in Cardiovascular Disease. Potential Usages and Hazards.
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CLINICAL interest in hyperbaric oxygenation is recent, buit scientific curiosity abouit high-pressuire environment dates back to ancient times. Alexander the Great of Macedoinia was the earliest hyperbaric investigator of whom we have recorded evidence.' 2 He suirveyed the ocean depths in a glass and animal skin diving-bell (fig. 1). Among his most remarkable observations was a fish of such extraordinary length that it required 3 days to svim by his viewing port. Certainly Alexander and his biographers were not given to uinderstatement, a trait they may share with subsequent workers in this field. During the past two centuries, scientists in many couintries have studied the biologic effects of increased environmental pressures with emphasis on the uinderwater civil and military applications of this knowledge. Sporadic efforts at treatment of various illnesses with compressed air alone have proved ineffectual and been abandoned with the exception of decompression sickness.3 More recently, however, Boerema and associates' have introduiced the hyperbaric chamber to the modern medical era by demonstrating enhanced oxygenation when increased atmospheric pres-
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Circulation
دوره 31 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1965