Medscape Medical News
John Dillon
February 14, 2025
After a fire that instantly killed a 5-year-old Michigan boy undergoing treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, experts are urging clinicians to take a conservative approach to the controversial but increasingly popular therapy.
Experts who spoke with Medscape Medical News said when patients ask about using hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), primary care physicians (PCPs) should read the literature around the therapy and the patient’s illness, seek out only centers with proper accreditation, ask patients how and where they learned that high-pressure oxygen might help their particular condition, and investigate individual centers the patient or their family members have in mind.
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