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2024 1st Quarter

Baromedical Nurses Association Update

The Baromedical Nurses Association Board of Directors met to include all BNA members.  The BNA meeting notes as presented by Dana Winn, current BNA President: Hyperbaric Nurses Day April 6, 2024: 11am-3pm EST The BNA invites you to join us for our annual Hyperbaric Nurses Day!  We hav...
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2024 1st Quarter

In Memoriam Dr. Dirk Jan Bakker, MD, PhD

On 10th December dr Dirk Jan Bakker passed away on the age of 83. Dr. Bakker was a general and transplant surgeon, trained by Professor Boerema and Professor Brum­melkamp and therefore he gained great interest in hyperbaric and diving medicine. His PhD thesis was “The Influence of Hyperbaric Oxy...
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2024 1st Quarter

Is this medical device safe to be in the chamber?: An introduction to the Medical Device Approval document

Author Bio: Kevin P Gardner serves as the Hyperbaric Safety Director at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI, overseeing the maintenance and safety of a large Fink Engineering multiplace hyperbaric chamber. He also serves as a member of the NFPA 53 technical committee, the UHMS Hyper...
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2024 1st Quarter

Use of Registry data to study HBO2 use, outcomes, and adverse events

A study by Kinjal Sethuraman, MD (University of Maryland) et a, highlighting the need for increased availability of emergency HBO2 treatment facilities, was submitted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) scheduled for May of 2024. Dr. Seth...
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2024 1st Quarter

Dick Clarke is the 2023 Recipient of the Prestigious DAN Lifetime Achievement Award

Richard (Dick) Clarke, a prominent leader in the hyperbaric oxygen and diving community, received the prestigious and well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award from Divers Accident Network (DAN) in November of 2023. Dick has been making contributions to this community since enlisting in the Brit...
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2023 4th Quarter

Medical Device Approval Process Form

CLICK HERE FOR THE FORM DESCRIPTION OF MEDICAL DEVICE APPROVAL PROCESS – CLASS ‘A' MULTIPLACE CHAMBERS  PURPOSE  The following Medical Device Approval Process is a generic process that has been endorsed by the Hyperbaric Oxygen Safety Committee of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical ...
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2023 4th Quarter

Multicenter Hyperbaric Outcomes Registry: 2023 Q4 Update

The Multicenter Registry for Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment includes 26 centers that agree to enter standard outcome measures on all the patients they see. These data are being published to inform the medical community about the uses of hyperbaric oxygen treatment and the outcomes.  Recent M...
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2023 4th Quarter

Prohibited Item Risk Assessment

Introduction What is the rationale behind having a prohibited items assessment/checklist for each hyperbaric unit? The hyperbaric safety program forms the cornerstone of every hyperbaric medicine service, offering essential guidance to identify and mitigate the potential risks and hazards associ...
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2023 3rd Quarter

A Message from the Safety Committee

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Not just in human health but in the life of your hyperbaric equipment, a preventative maintenance program keeps your systems running efficiently, economically, and most importantly safely. Preventative maintenance is the act of performing regul...
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2023 3rd Quarter

Multicenter Hyperbaric Outcomes Registry: 2023 Q3 Update

The Multicenter Hyperbaric Outcomes Registry collects a defined set of outcome measures for all 14 UHMS-approved, and for some emerging hyperbaric oxygen treatment indications. The registry is a consortium of participating treatment centers. All participating sites use the same Research Electroni...
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2023 3rd Quarter

Remarks from Dr. Michael Strauss upon receiving the 2023 UHMS Behnke Award

June 18, 2023, San Diego, California It is indeed a great honor to receive the premier award of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. Dr. Behnke, although retired at the time, was a willing audience for my novel ideas about diving medicine upon my entry into the Navy 56-years ago. His ins...
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2023 2nd Quarter

Care of the Forensic Patient in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

A forensic patient is one who is under the legal custody of law enforcement or correction facility. The United States has over 2 million individuals who are incarcerated.1 Of these individuals, 800,000 were found to have chronic conditions requiring medical care. Comparatively, incarcerated patie...
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2023 1st Quarter

The Role of the RN in Hyperbaric Medicine

Background Hyperbaric oxygen therapy relies on a chamber operator as well as a supervising provider. The generally accepted industry standard is one chamber operator for every two hyperbaric chambers. Many programs train and develop chamber operators from a variety of clinical backgrounds includi...
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2023 1st Quarter

Baromedical Nurses Association Newsletter

We invite you to the fun and exciting annual Baromedical Nurses Association Day It’s happening on April 15, 2023, for four hours of continuing education. This is a great chance not only for education but to be interactive with the presentations. The BNA day is evolving each year, as are many of ...
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2023 1st Quarter

When It’s Better to Be Under More Pressure

‘Mild hyperbaric’ facilities need to comply with standards or cease and desist until they can The medical discipline of clinical hyperbaric medicine had its origins in the 1960s with seminal work done in both Holland and the United States. One of the early applications employed hyperbaric oxygen...
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