All the right moves: the need for the timely use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for treating TBI/CTE/PTSD.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The modern age of hyperbaric medicine began in 1937; however, today few know about hyperbaric oxygen's effects on the body and medical conditions outside of diving medicine and wound care centers - a serious ethical issue as there are 20 US military veterans committing suicide every day directly related to Traumatic Brain Injury/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The problem is not whether hyperbaric oxygen is effective for treating brain injuries, but why the interference in offering this therapy to those who need it.

Discussion

Up against black-boxed anti-depressants that are not efficacious, it should be a "no-brainer" to use a safe, off-label drug, but in the case of military veterans, every suicide might be seen as a tremendous cost saving to certain technocrats

SUBMITTER: Stoller KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4512112 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature