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Is hbot safe technique.can it harm or degrade the patient health who is suffering from stroke?

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Dr. Stephen Southard answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Relatively safe: About 2% can have ear trauma. There are other issues like sinus trauma, and pneumothoraces(collapsed lungs). Probably the most concerning adverse effect, are seizures, but they are rare, on the order of 1 seizure in every 10,000-100,000 treatments.

Answered 5/5/2015

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