{"id":110694,"date":"2020-08-01T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/doctors-try-pressurized-oxygen-chambers-in-covid-fight"},"modified":"2020-08-01T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:43:09","slug":"doctors-try-pressurized-oxygen-chambers-in-covid-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/doctors-try-pressurized-oxygen-chambers-in-covid-fight","title":{"rendered":"Doctors try pressurized oxygen chambers in COVID fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-try-pressurized-oxygen-chambers-in-covid-fight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I posted about this a while back, as a treatment. I\u2019m glad people are catching up.<\/p>\n<p>Some doctors are now trying to deliver 100% oxygen to COVID patients in decompression chambers long used to treat divers with the bends.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As a New York University medical researcher who works once a week in an emergency room, Dr. David Lee had the luxury of time to think like a scientist while also treating coronavirus patients whose lungs kept giving out. In every case, he saw the same thing: Their blood was starved of oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>One day an idea hit him: Could hyperbaric oxygen therapy, best known for treating divers with the bends, help stave off the need for ventilators and perhaps reduce deaths?<\/p>\n<p>Physiologically it made sense to him, but he soon learned it was also complicated. The therapy, which involves delivering 100% oxygen straight to patients inside a pressurized chamber, is often met with skepticism by the wider medical community because fringe supporters have long touted it as a virtual cure-all without scientific evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about this a while back, as a treatment. I\u2019m glad people are catching up. Some doctors are now trying to deliver 100% oxygen to COVID patients in decompression chambers long used to treat divers with the bends. As a New York University medical researcher who works once a week in an emergency room, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}