Center for Hyperbaric Oxygen Theraphy - Brussels Belgium

<body> <center> <p><b><a href="summary_UK.htm">Center for Hyperbaric Oxygen Theraphy - Brussels Belgium</a></b></p> <p><b>A word for our english-speaking visitors</b></p> <p> <hr width="50%"> <br> <table width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> <p>Although English is the "official" Internet language, we have chosen to construct this website primarily in Dutch and French, which are the two most spoken languages in Belgium. After all, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is largely unknown to the medical and paramedical public in Belgium also, and we hope to provide some information that might help change this situation.</p> <p>However, more and more pages will be translated into english also, and may be of interest to those who to whom French or Dutch is like Chinese: fascinating but extremely cryptic.</p> <p>Try for instance an article on <a href="co.htm">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</a>, and read about the data we collected during the period 1992-1995. Or read about the safety of HBOT in the treatment of <a href="burn.htm">thermal burns</a> (at least in the Wistar Rat...). We also have a general article that may give a good <a href="fysici.htm">introduction about HBOT</a> to those who are not necessarily medically skilled (and full of links to relevant scientific references too !). </p> <p>We've added an article on our research on <a href="dive.htm">Patency of the Foramen Ovale in decompression sickness</a>, and a report from a pilot study on <a href="deaf.htm">sudden deafness</a> - of which we are currently conducting a prospective randomised clinical trial. </p> <p>If you want to explore further the scientific basis of HBOT, take a step to our <a href="biblio.htm">bibliography pages</a>, listed by indication (of course not entirely complete, but we do our best...). Finally, our <a href="links.htm">"Links Page"</a> opens the way back up to the Internet, with shortcuts to useful or interesting sites that deal with HBOT.</p> <p>Enjoy your visit and call again soon - this pages keep evolving !</p> <p><a href="mailto: peter.germonpre@hmra.smd.be">Dr. Peter Germonpré, MD<br> </a>Chief of Hyperbaric Center</p> <p></p> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <p> </p> <table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td>   <ul> <li><b><a href="frdive.htm">Patent Foramen Ovale: a risk factor for cerebral decompression sickness in sports divers<br> </a></b></li> <li><b><a href="frburn.htm">Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of burns: evaluation of systemic lipid peroxidation and activation of oxygen-radical dependent inflammatory reactions.<br> </a></b></li> <li><b><font color="#004000"><a href="frfysici.htm">Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Oxygen as a Drug</a></font></b><font color="#000000"> <br> </font></li> <li><b><a href="frdeaf.htm">Sudden sensorineural deafness: treatment with hyperbaric oxygen therapy after failure of a ten day course of “classical” drug therapy</a></b>. <br> </li> <li><b><a href="frdive4.htm">Labyrinthine hydrops as a cause of cochleo-vestibular problems after scuba diving: a “new” diving syndrome</a>.<br> </b></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"><font size="1"> -</font><font size="2"> <a href="#gen">General references</a><br> - <a href="#co">CO-intoxication</a><br> - <a href="#smoke">Smoke inhalation</a><br> - <a href="#gg">Gas Gangrene (Clostridium spp.)</a><br> - <a href="#ana">Anaerobic soft tissue infections (necrotising fasciitis, anaerobic cellulitis, mediastinitis,...)</a><br> - <a href="#crush">Prevention of anaerobic infections in patients with severe trauma ; adjunctive treatment in major soft tissue injury</a><br> - <a href="#dci">Diving accidents (decompression sickness)</a><br> - <a href="#ega">Arterial air or gas embolism</a><br> - <a href="#chron">Stimulation of woundhealing in selected problem wounds</a><br> - <a href="#ksb">Sudden deafness and acoustic trauma</a><br> -<a href="#burn"> Thermal burns</a><br> - <a href="#flap">Compromised flaps and grafts</a></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.eubs.org">European Underwater and Baromedical Society (EUBS)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.uhms.org">Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)</a></li> <li> <a href="http://www.daneurope.org">Divers Alert Network (DAN) Europe</a>: a non-profit organisation dedicated to diving safety and research</li> <li><a href="http://www.hyperbaricnurses.org/">Baromedical Nurses Association:</a> (US) association for training and education for hyperbaric chamber nurses</li> <li><a href="http://www.acep.org/COMMSECT/SE001501.HTM">Hyperbaric Medicine</a>, American College of Emergency Physicians </li> </ul> <p> <hr width="50%"> <b>Evénements</b> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.etcusa.com/hbo_cal.htm#meet">Hyperbaric Medicine Calendar</a> </li> </ul> <p> <hr width="50%"> <b>Bibliographie</b> <p><i><font size=+1>    </font></i><b>Medical:</b> <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/oxy/hot.html">Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy</a>: JAMA 1990 Overview by P.S. Grim</li> <li><a href="http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/oxy/kindwall.html">Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: more indications than many doctors realize</a>: BMJ 1993 overview by E.P. Kindwall</li> <li><a href="http://mbox.unipa.it/~ccare/hbo/hbo_pub.htm">HBO publications on-line </a>by Prof. A. Sparacia, Palermo, Italy</li> <li><a href="http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk:80/cgi-bin/medbib.pl">UK Diving bibliography listing</a> </li> </ul> <p>    <b>For the Non-Physician, but can be enjoyed by doctors too...</b> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/oxy/ulcer.html">HBOT in the therapy of foot ulcers</a>: Diabetes Forecast 1993 by P. Cianci</li> <li><a href="http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ukdiving/medicine/index.htm">Articles on astma and diving</a> : for the non-physician, but can also be enjoyed by doctors... </li> <li><a href="http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/divmd.html">Scuba Times Online Medical Centre</a> : for the non-physician, but can also be... </li> <li><a href="http://weber.u.washington.edu/~ekay/">Dr. Edmond Kay's Diving Medicine Homepage</a>: thank you Ed for the HBO chamber picture on our homepage ! </li> </ul> <p>    <b>Info on-line or off-line</b> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.diveweb.com/best/">Best Publishing Company</a>: publishes many books related to diving and HBOT </li> </ul> <p> <hr width="50%"> <b>Centres hyperbares</b> <ul> <li><a href="http://mbox.unipa.it/~ccare/hbo.htm">University of Palermo</a>, Institute of Anesthesiology, Undersea and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Section, Palermo, Italy </li> <li><a href="http://www.it.ki.se/ks/anest/hbo.htm">Karolinska Institute</a>, Dept Anaesth Intensive Care, Section of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Stockholm, Sweden</li> <li><a href="http://www.immt.gdynia.pl/./hyperbar/index.htm">Department of Hyperbaric Medicine and Sea Rescue</a>, Institute for Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Gdynia, Poland</li> <li><a href="http://www.demon.co.uk/hyperbar">The National Hyperbaric Centre</a>, Aberdeen, UK</li> <li><a href="http://www.injersey.com/Clients/MCOC/WoundManage/">Medical Center of Ocean County</a>, Wound Management Center, New Jersey, USA</li> <li><a href="http://xenon.brooks.af.mil/HSC/products/doc70.html">The Armstrong Laboratory Davis Hyperbaric Laboratory</a>, Brooks AF Base, Texas, USA</li> <li><a href="http://www.acs.amedd.army.mil/sam/altphy2.htm">Department of Hyperbaric Medicine</a>, US Army School of Aviation Medicine, Alabama, USA</li> <li><a href="http://www.hbot.com">HBOT online</a>: info-site provided by The Hyperbaric Oxygen Clinics of Nevada, USA</li> <li><a href="http://www.caritas.ab.ca/~ther/respcare/HBO/car_hbo.html">Caritas Hyperbaric Oxygen Program</a>, Misericordia Community Health Centre, Edmonton Alberta, Canada</li> <li><a href="http://www.anesthesia.org/HBO.html">Hyperbaric Unit</a>, General Hospital, Ottawa, Canada</li> <li><a href="http://users.capitolonline.nl/~nlco9754/hco.html">Stichting Hyperbaar Centrum Oosterschelde</a>, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands</li> <li><a href="http://www.hyperchamber.com">Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust</a> - Hyperbaric Medicine Unit <br> PKG </li> </ul> <p> <p align="center"><a href="frbibliopr.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('document.Image7','document.Image7','../ohb/img/printcol.gif','#941796717882')"><br> </a> </p> <p> </p> </body>