Oxygen therapy is used in human medicine to treat necrotising fasciitis. In Singapore, the Hyperbaric Medicine Branch of the Republic of Singapore Navy's Naval Medicine and Hyperbaric Centre used to be the only place to get such treatment. Its primary role is to treat navy divers who suffer from decompression illness. It treats many recreational divers and other conditions which benefit from oxygen therapy such as carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene in wounds infected by anaerobic bacteria, diabetic ulcers, compromised skin grafts, radiation tissue damage for cancer patients and burns. In 2001, the Tan Tock Seng Hospital will start a hyperbaric medicine centre.
Hyperbaric oxygen acts as a drug.
Oxygen is at a low level in flesh eating tissues and is needed by the cells to sustain life. The oxygen is more easily absorbed by the cells deprived of oxygen when the patient is put under high atmospheric pressure. You may get the agents to call you and close early so that you can rent out faster and let the tenant pay for your mortgages. Copyright Asiahomes Internet, 2001. All rights reserved.