Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Diver Recompression in Malaysia

I'm working in Malaysia's Premier Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Diver Recompression Chamber today. Picture on the left shows the 6 person chamber being used at "The Centre for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine" in Greeentown, Ipoh, Perak. Rather nice setup here.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is rather new in its clinical use in Malaysia. There are only 3 main centres, one each in KL, Ipoh and Penang. Other centres use monoplace chambers which are small one person hyperbaric chambers.This Hyperbaric Chamber, is the most widely used one, as it is the pioneer commercial Hyperbaric Wound Care centre in Malaysia

The Underwater Medicine Consultant in this centre also Decompressess divers with Decompression Illness or DCI. I supervised a Diver Decompression 3 months back, diver enjoyed his 8 hours of Oxygen, and went back a pain free happy diver.

As far as Daily business is concerned, the clinical hyperbaric oxygen theraphy here deals more with wound care, especially with diabetic wounds. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not a miracle cure, but it sure gives these diabetic wounds literally a good breath of life.

When in the Chamber, what happens is that the patients are literally pressurized and then asked to inhale pure oxygen for a duration of time. During the time in the chamber, the entire body of the patient is fed with a big boost of oxygen. There is a big boost of Oxygen because not only is blood carried in the hemoglobin of the blood, the increased pressure of the enviroment allows oxygen to be carried by even the plasma of the blood. Plasma is the fluid which bed blood cells swim in. This leads to more than a hundred fold of oxygen reaching previously oxygen starved places of the diabetic wounds.

As with all medical procedures, there is no 100% guarantee, but this breath of life will at least make the scales tip to your favour.

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