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(Chest. 1963;44:622-632.)
© 1963 American College of Chest Physicians

Hyperbaric Oxygenation in Cardiac and Pulmonary Disease

Claude R. Hitchcock M.D.1; Russell H. Harris M.D.2; and John J. Haglin M.D.3

1 Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School
2 National Heart Institute Trainee on Grant Number HTS-5376-C2-C3
3 Assistant Chief of Surgery, Minneapolis General Hospital

In the field of medicine and surgery new techniques or new methods of drug therapy must always be added with caution and after carefully controlled experiments. Ordinarily, the patient is the only person to be considered regarding safety and morbidity inherent in a given method or procedure. However, in the case of hyperbaric oxygenation, either as therapy or as an adjunct to surgery, far greater problems are encountered. Everyone involved including the medical and paramedical personnel as well as all individuals and property in the surrounding area can be jeopardized with an improperly constructed or operated hyperbaric facility.

Caution must be the by-word for anyone working in this new clinical field. It is incumbent upon all who enter this field to do so forearmed with as much basic knowledge of the dangers and pitfalls as possible.

It is possible that, following a decade of serious research this concept may fail to alter appreciably, or influence, medicine and surgery so that it will represent only a passing phase in medical history. On the other hand, the application of OHP into the sophisticated area of present medicine and surgery may reap rich rewards for civilization in general.






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