<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a safe treatment, provided fulfilling certain rules of patient qualifications to treatment, as well as supervision over the course of therapy by qualified medical staff. Side effects reported in the literature are rare, and are usually mild and transient. Professional medical staff allows minimising the adverse events occurrence. The scale of complications is unknown, especially in Polish hyperbaric center. Careful analysis could be used to develop prevention procedures for patients of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Hyperbaric Oxygen Centre and Wound Treatment in Bydgoszcz during 28 months performed hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in case of 423 patients. During this period, adverse events occurred occasionally. 17 cases have been reported. Authors described study case 77 year-old patient who was admitted due to non-healing wound-left lower abdomen (state after radiotherapy). During the fourth session, on decompression phase patient have had a generalized seizure (tonic-clonic). The decompression was stopped, the oxygen supply was disconnected but only after the drug administration seizures terminated. The most likely causative agent of the adverse reactions of the patient treated with HBOT was the oxygen toxic effect on the brain tissue. However, analyzing the circumstances of the seizure termination: phase of decompression at the pressure 2ATA and lack of oxygen disconnection response, it cannot be excluded other causes of this complication.</p></abstract>

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a safe treatment, provided fulfilling certain rules of patient qualifications to treatment, as well as supervision over the course of therapy by qualified medical staff. Side effects reported in the literature are rare, and are usually mild and transient. Professional medical staff allows minimising the adverse events occurrence. The scale of complications is unknown, especially in Polish hyperbaric center. Careful analysis could be used to develop prevention procedures for patients of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Hyperbaric Oxygen Centre and Wound Treatment in Bydgoszcz during 28 months performed hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in case of 423 patients. During this period, adverse events occurred occasionally. 17 cases have been reported. Authors described study case 77 year-old patient who was admitted due to non-healing wound-left lower abdomen (state after radiotherapy). During the fourth session, on decompression phase patient have had a generalized seizure (tonic-clonic). The decompression was stopped, the oxygen supply was disconnected but only after the drug administration seizures terminated. The most likely causative agent of the adverse reactions of the patient treated with HBOT was the oxygen toxic effect on the brain tissue. However, analyzing the circumstances of the seizure termination: phase of decompression at the pressure 2ATA and lack of oxygen disconnection response, it cannot be excluded other causes of this complication.

Adverse reactions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy - case description of a generalised seizure

Department of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

Department of Journalism, New Media and Social Communication at the University of Casimir the Great in Bydgoszcz, Poland

Katedra Zdrowia Publicznego, Collegium Medicum im. L. Rydygiera w Bydgoszczy, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

Polish Hyperbaric Research

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a safe treatment, provided fulfilling certain rules of patient qualifications to treatment, as well as supervision over the...

Adverse reactions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy - case description of a generalised seizure

Published Online: May 20, 2016

Page range: 19 - 22

Received: Dec 12, 2015

Accepted: Jan 12, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phr-2016-0002

Keywords
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, complications, seizure, Central Nervous System

© 2016 Kinga Grobelska et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Adverse reactions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy - case description of a generalised seizure

Published Online: May 20, 2016

Page range: 19 - 22

Received: Dec 12, 2015

Accepted: Jan 12, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phr-2016-0002

KeywordsHyperbaric oxygen therapy, complications, seizure, Central Nervous System

© 2016 Kinga Grobelska et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, complications, seizure, Central Nervous System