Who cannot use a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

The following:: Must not - people with a collapsed lung or are using medications that impair wound healing (cisplatin, sulfamylon), affect the lungs (bleomycin) or other (doxorubicin, disulfiram). Might not - those with asthma, claustrophobia, copd, pregnancy, an epidural pain pump, a pacemaker, seizure disorder, upper respiratory infection, high fever, eustachian tube dysfunction, or congenital spherocytosis.

A small group.: People with untreated collapsed lung, those with some types of chemotherapy, recent eye surgery with gas infusion, extremely claustrophobic persons.

A/W Dr. Ferdowsi: Untreated pneumothorax = absolute contraindication to hbot. Contraindications: recent / current use of cisplatin, doxorubicin, disulfram or mafenide acetate. Relative contraindications: high fever, emphysema (w c02 retention), asthma, URI (difficulty clearing), previous thoracic or ear surgery, malignancies, seizure hx, optic neuritis, pace maker, chronic sinusitis, spherocytosis (congenital), .

For a good review: try the following link as the relative and absolute contraindications cannot be listed with only 400 characters, http://www.hyperbaricoxygentherapies.com/hyperbaric-therapy-contraindications/

Few exceptions: Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment HBO or HBO2T is a treatment whereby the patient breaths 100% Oxygen under a higher than atmospheric pressure, usually 2 atmospheres. Due to this hyper oxygenation and the fact that the patient will be exposed to a "dive" of 33 feet of water (the equivalent depth of 2 atm) there are some patient's who may not tolerate the treatment well.