Oxygen treatment helps US soldier's recovery
Oxygen treatment has been used to help one US Marine recover from the injuries caused by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006.
The Lebanon Daily News reports lance corporal Jared Kreiser underwent treatment at the Good Samaritan Center for Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine that involved the use of pure oxygen.
He spent around two-and-a-half hours a day in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber over a period of ten days and Mr Kreiser described the treatment as "fantastic".
"It was very relaxing. I could feel within that my body [was] healing," he was quoted by the news source as saying.
Dr Benson Harvey Jr of the medical facility explained pure oxygen has a number of healing qualities, as it encourages blood flow to damaged tissue and eradicates infection.
Similar equipment is also in use at the Advanced Wound Center at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Omaha, US and has been credited with preventing doctors from resorting to amputating damaged limbs.
Posted by Stewart Elliott
08/09/2010 14:58:20
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