Hyperbaric Chambers for Tramatic Brain Injuries

[Bill Mattocks]

Wasn't this a Michael Jackson thing too? Sounds like it could be good news for our wounded veterans, though.

http://www.military.com/news/article/some-say-tbi-cure-is-in-the-air.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS

Some Say TBI Cure is In the Air

August 03, 2010
Military.com|by Bryant Jordan
It seems the stuff of science fiction.
Take a patient with a wound or injury and place him in a chamber where he is exposed to 100 percent pure oxygen for up to one to two hours, and the wound miraculously heals.
But take the "fiction" out of the science and it’s now accepted medicine in cases of fractures, burns, severe blood loss, carbon monoxide poisoning and a half-dozen other injuries or conditions.
And some doctors say the treatment, dubbed "hyperbaric oxygen therapy," can be useful to veterans suffering one of the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- traumatic brain injury.