Practical Hyperbaric Oxygen Medicine, 2nd Edition, Revised Version

Author: Jin Dewei (USA)
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Features: This book is written by 47 authors and is divided into 3 parts, with a total of 40 chapters. Part 1, Introduction to Hyperbaric Oxygen Medicine, consists of 17 chapters, covering the history of hyperbaric medicine, the basic physics of high pressure, the physiological effects of hyperbaric oxygen, oxygen toxicity, contraindications and side effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and their management, the basic principles of wound healing and hyperbaric oxygen in infectious diseases and pediatric applications, management of critically ill patients in the chamber, medication under pressure, hyperbaric nursing, hyperbaric equipment, and economic issues of hyperbaric medicine. Part 2, Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, includes 17 chapters, introducing the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for decompression sickness, gas embolism, carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning, gas gangrene, osteomyelitis, soft tissue infection, brain abscess, fungal infections, radiation tissue damage, hyperbaric oxygen therapy for burns, skin grafting and flap transplantation, crush injuries, compartment syndrome and other traumatic peripheral ischemia, hemorrhagic anemia, special non-healing wounds, and the mechanism of treating local ischemia-reperfusion. Part 3, Research Fields, comprises 6 chapters, covering the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for severe head and spinal injuries, leprosy, acute myocarditis, avascular necrosis of the femoral head, postoperative intestinal adhesion, and brown spider bites.