# Presentation: 515534

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## Alan Becker, VP

- 300 North Lee Street, Suite 201
- Alexandria, VA 22314
- 703-684-2060 x 1010

## First Aid Medical Equipment
On Site Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Suitable for Use Anywhere
Patient Comfort - Windows          & Two-Way Communications
Easy to Assemble

- On Site Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Suitable for Use Anywhere
- Patient Comfort - Windows          & Two-Way Communications
- Easy to Assemble

- Emergency Evacuation Hyperbaric Stretcher (EEHS)

## Approved Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Following Indications:

- 1.    Air & Gas Embolism
- 2.    _Carbon Monoxide Poisoning_
- 	        CO Poisoning Complicated by Cyanide Poisoning
- 3.    Clostridal Myositis & Myonecrososis (Gas Gangrene)
- 4.    _Crush Injury_, Compartment Syndrome, and other Acute                   	 Traumatic Ischemias
- 5.    Decompression Sickness
- 6.    Enhancement of Healing in Selected Problem Wounds
- 7.    Exceptional Blood Loss (Anemia)
- 8.    Intracranial Abscess
- 9.    Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
- 10.  Osteomyelitis (Refractory)
- 11.  Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)
- 12.  Skin Grafts & Flaps (Compromised)
- 13.  _Thermal Burns_

## CO Poisoning

Crush Injuries

Thermal Burns  

- _Crush Injuries_
- _Thermal Burns_

**Notes:**
CO Poisoning - HBO2 treatment of individuals with serious CO poisoning (transient or prolonged unconsciousness, abnormal neurologic signs, cardiovascular dysfunction, or severe acidosis) speeds up removal of CO from the body.
Crush Injuries - HBO2 increases oxygen delivery to the injured tissues, reduces swelling and provides an improved environment for healing and fighting infection 
Thermal Burns - If administered within 6-24 hours after initial burn, HBO2 has been shown to limit the progression of the burn injury, reduce swelling, reduce the need for surgery, diminish lung damage, and shorten hospitalization.

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**Notes:**
It is a folding portable pressure vessel which uses modern lightweight composite materials of great strength. Rigid when inflated, when not in use the chamber can be folded up into two compact travel cases which could be checked in as personal luggage at any airport. It can used for anyone requiring hyperbaric oxygen therapy who needs to be transported for more intensive treatment. It is therefore ideal in the emergency situation.

## Specifications

- _DIMENSIONS_
- Length		88.5 ins 		2250mm
- Diameter	23.5 ins 		585mm
- _PRESSURES_
- Max working	    2.1 bar	30.5 psi

**Notes:**
The maximum dimensions are given here.
The working and test pressures are given in bars but this easily translates into metres:
	Max working depth 21 metres (70 feet) - which is generally enough for an oxygen therapeutic table
	Each unit is tested to 31.5 metres (105 feet)

Eight units have been tested to destruction, all witnessed by US Navy Certification Engineers.
The units were filled with water and pressurised until they burst. The weakest burst at 13 bars or 130 metres and the best at 17 bars or 170m.

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## Portability

- _WEIGHTS_
- Chamber			110 lb   50 Kg
- Complete in Cases	165 lb   75 Kg
- _CASE SIZES_
- Large 		31.5 x 31.5  x  24 ins                   			80 x 80 x 60 cm
- Small 		27.5  x   27.5  x  20 ins                  			70 x 70 x 50 cm

**Notes:**
These are the dimensions of the boxes and the weights of the equipment. Weights CAN vary as there are some optional extras which I’ll come onto shortly.

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**Notes:**
They are housed in two HDPE - High Density Poly-ethylene cases.

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**Notes:**
The control box allows inputs of both air for main chamber pressure and oxygen for the patients BIBS with gauges indicating flow.
On the output side there is BIBS supply, main supply, main vent and the pneumo connection to read chamber pressure.
I’ll talk a little more about the panel later when you’ll see it connected up.

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**Notes:**
This is the chamber box. On the top there, you see the control box. 

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**Notes:**
Remove the lid, turn the box on its side and pull out the stretcher.

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**Notes:**
The main items you are looking at here are the end plates. This particular model was due for delivery to the US Coastguard and the US National Standard require the Perspex end plates to be 1 inch (2.4 cm) thick. These are thicker (and therefore stronger) than the minimum thickness required for Lloyds Certification which is 0.8 of an inch - about 2 cm. 

## Standard Fit Items

- Full BIBS with overboard Dump
- Two way intercom
- Air/O2 HP regulators
- Digital Clock/Timer
- Handling Straps
- Transport/Storage containers

**Notes:**
Here is a list of STANDARD FIT items. These are mainly in the second container.

## Build Standards

- Safety Standard for Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy – ASME PVHO-1 (2001) & Code Case 6
- U.S. Navy Diving and Manned Hyperbaric Systems Safety Certification Manual
- Lloyd’s Rules and Regulations – Submersibles & Underwater Systems 1989
- ISO 9001:2001 Quality Standard

## Control Box

- Hyperlite Boxes Stacked

- Hyperlite Packed in Open Boxes

## Hyperlite

- Penetrator Window Assy with Handles

- Unfolding Tube

## Optional Items

- Medical Lock-in
- Dome edge protection rings
- Gas storage cylinders
- O2 and CO2 analysers
- Connectors for ECG, ventilator and other monitoring
- Lifting sling
- Pressure gauge in chamber

**Notes:**
Optional items are listed here. The main one is the medical lock-in facility.

- _Optional Items_

- Drag Mattress

- Internal Gauge Bracket Face

- Medical Lock with Doors Out

## Optional Items

- Silicon Rubber Dispenser Assembly

- Micro O2 Oxygen Monitor

- Silicon Rubber Repair Kit Contents

## EEHS Summary

- Proven first aid medical equipment
- Suitable for administering HBO to treat CO poisoning, crush injury, and thermal burns at virtually any accident site
- Light, foldable, and versatile

## Questions