9 or less for at least 6 Standard care compression and treatment for 2 weeks; Control group - treated with phenytoin sodium (n=2); favorable outcome categories (good hours, admitted to 84(ND) decompression times) hourly for 2 weeks. hemotympanum (n=2). recovery and moderate disability). The Level 1 Trauma Center of 100% O2 at 1.5 ATA VITAL: Intracranial pressure (ICP). NS bt possibility that a different hyperbaric oxygen at Hennepin County Standard care every 8 hours over 2 groups. Time points unclear. Researchers performed bilateral treatment paradigm or the addition of other Medical Center, with a 84(ND)e weeks or until patient myringotomies on the last 46 of the 84 agents, such as a 2 l-aminosteroid, may mean age of 32.5 +/- recovered (alert and Time points: Unclear HBO2 patients because of improve quality of survival is being explored. NDa oriented) or declared GOS & MORTALITY: Mortality rate. The intracranial pressure possibly brain dead. mortality rate was 17% for the 84 due to inner ear pain. hyperbaric oxygen-treated patients and Compression: 1 psi / 32% for the 82 control patients, a min; Plateau: 60 min; statistically significant difference. Decompression: 1 psi / test, 1 df, p = 0.037). min. The difference in mortality rate between Standard care: the hyperbaric oxygen-treated and control Neurosurgical care, patients with GCS scores of 4 to 6 was medical treatment, and statistically significant by the chi-squared management of test (1 df, p = 0.04). Hyperbaric Intracranial pressure. patients with ICP's higher than 20 mm Hg for over 20 minutes had a mortality rate of 21%, as compared to 48% for the control group (chi-squared test, 1 df, p = 0.02).
9 or less for at least 6 hours, admitted to Level 1 Trauma Center at Hennepin County Medical Center, with a mean age of 32.5 +/- NDa Standard care 84(ND) Standard care 84(ND)e compression and decompression times) of 100% O2 at 1.5 ATA every 8 hours over 2 weeks or until patient recovered (alert and oriented) or declared brain dead. Compression: 1 psi / min; Plateau: 60 min; Decompression: 1 psi / min. Standard care: Neurosurgical care, medical treatment, and management of Intracranial pressure. treatment for 2 weeks; Control group - hourly for 2 weeks. VITAL: Intracranial pressure (ICP). NS bt groups. Time points unclear. Time points: Unclear GOS & MORTALITY: Mortality rate. The mortality rate was 17% for the 84 hyperbaric oxygen-treated patients and 32% for the 82 control patients, a statistically significant difference. test, 1 df, p = 0.037). The difference in mortality rate between the hyperbaric oxygen-treated and control patients with GCS scores of 4 to 6 was statistically significant by the chi-squared test (1 df, p = 0.04). Hyperbaric patients with ICP's higher than 20 mm Hg for over 20 minutes had a mortality rate of 21%, as compared to 48% for the control group (chi-squared test, 1 df, p = 0.02). treated with phenytoin sodium (n=2); hemotympanum (n=2). Researchers performed bilateral myringotomies on the last 46 of the 84 HBO2 patients because of intracranial pressure possibly due to inner ear pain. favorable outcome categories (good recovery and moderate disability). The possibility that a different hyperbaric oxygen treatment paradigm or the addition of other agents, such as a 2 l-aminosteroid, may improve quality of survival is being explored.
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