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Hyperbaric chamber helped my healing

Tom Christensen Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 5:32pm

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Tom Christensen’s first-person account of his visits to the hyperbaric chambers.

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The Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden stays busy. During hyperbaric oxygen treatment, patients breathe 100 percent oxygen in a pressurized chamber to increase oxygen carrying capacity in tissue and support and even speed up the healing process.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps body heal wounds

Tom Christensen Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 12:31am

We all need oxygen to breathe. It feeds our circulation system, which carries nutrients throughout our bodies.

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Jennifer Graham poses for a portrait Thursday with her husband, Cory, and their 6-month-old, Scarlett, at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden. Scarlett stopped breathing and turned blue at the hospital when she was only a few hours old, but using the Cool Cap lowered the baby’s temperature and helped to preserve her brain function. Scarlett is developmentally on track today, her mother says. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Cap improves survival rate of oxygen-deprived infants

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 7:18am

OGDEN -- Scarlett Graham entered the world just before 8 a.m. on July 13, 2011, and for the next nine hours, Cory and Jennifer Graham's newest bundle of joy was a happy, healthy newborn. Then Scarlett stopped breathing.

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Hyperbaric hope: Patients look for miracles at clinic

Lenora LaPeter Anton St. Petersburg Times

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 1:26pm

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- One sunny morning recently, Millie Galan-Aguirre pushed her 14-year-old son's wheelchair past an AMVET post and a tattoo parlor to a strip-mall storefront called Chamber of Hope.

She rolled Manny inside and parked him next to a long, blue tube with a zipper along the top.

"Hi, Sunshine," she said, taking his hand. "You ready to go in?"

Soon the other mothers would arrive with children who had other problems. The boy with half a brain. The girl who nearly drowned. The teenager with cerebral palsy. Everyone seeking miracles.

There are no doctors in this unlikely outpost. No insurance needed. No fees. The only currency is hope -- and Mark Fowler, the man who runs this place, tosses it around like confetti.

Fowler hooked Manny up to a lift that lowered him into one of the five hyperbaric chambers positioned around the large, open room. His mother climbed in and laid down next to him as Fowler zipped the top closed.

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