New Orleans doctors hope hyperbaric chambers could save COVID-19 patients

NEW ORLEANS — A new and different way of treating patients with COVID-19 may soon be studied in New Orleans. 

Monday, a panel of doctors met to decide if the study, treating patients in oxygen chambers, can move forward. The idea dates back more than a century.

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers have been used for decades to heal. They pump many times the oxygen under pressure into a patient. And recently Dr. Paul Harch, emergency medicine and hyperbaric oxygen specialist at LSU Health, came across information from the deadly 1918 Spanish flu outbreak.

Amazing news from the Hyperbaric Oxygen world!

Read the full article here!