page_title: Diving chamber
section_title: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber
hierarchical_section_title: Diving chamber / Out of water use / Hyperbaric treatment chamber / Hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Vista interna di una moderna camera iperbarica multiposto per ossigenoterapia iperbarica in ambito ospedaliero English: Internal view of a multiplace chamber for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, showing the airtight door leading to the entry lock in the closed position.
context_page_description: A diving chamber is a vessel for human occupation, which may have an entrance that can be sealed to hold an internal pressure significantly higher than ambient pressure, a pressurised gas system to control the internal pressure, and a supply of breathing gas for the occupants.
  There are two main functions for diving chambers:
  as a simple form of submersible vessel to transport divers underwater and to provide a temporary base and retrieval system in the depths;
  as a land, ship or offshore platform-based hyperbaric chamber or system, to artificially reproduce the hyperbaric conditions under the sea. Internal pressures above normal atmospheric pressure are provided for diving-related applications such as saturation diving and diver decompression, and non-diving medical applications such as hyperbaric medicine.
context_section_description: A hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber is used to treat patients, including divers, whose condition might improve through hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Some illnesses and injuries occur, and may linger, at the cellular or tissue level. In cases such as circulatory problems, non-healing wounds, and strokes, adequate oxygen cannot reach the damaged area and the body's healing ability is unable to function properly. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases oxygen transport via dissolved oxygen in serum, and is most efficacious where the haemoglobin is compromised (e.g. carbon monoxide poisoning) or where the extra oxygen in solution can diffuse through tissues past embolisms that are blocking the blood supply as in decompression illness. Hyperbaric chambers capable of admitting more than one patient (multiplace) and an inside attendant have advantages for the treatment of decompression sickness (DCS) if the patient requires other treatment for serious complications or injury while in the chamber, but in most cases monoplace chambers can be successfully used for treating decompression sickness. Rigid chambers are capable of greater depth of recompression than soft chambers that are unsuitable for treating DCS.
caption: Internal view of a multiplace chamber for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, showing the airtight door leading to the entry lock.
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