We feel that to draw such conclusions is to lend this study more power than it actually has. The loss of more than half of the patients to follow-up, the confounding issues of depression, suicide, and coingestions, and the prolonged oxygen treatment of the control group decrease our ability to extrapolate this data to our patient popluation. The nearest hyperbaric medicine unit is 2 hours away. None present would have made the 2 hour ambulance transfer to the nearest HBO chamber for our patient. Not all measures are reliable.
Toxicology relies on abstracts and opinion.