Current Key Faculty A multidisciplinary facility, the CHMEP conducts research and provides clinical services to patients in need of pressure and oxygen as a form of treatment.
Conditions Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen · · · · · · · · · ·
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Air or gas embolism Decompression sickness Central retinal artery occlusion Carbon monoxide poisoning Clostridial myonecrosis (gas gangrene) and other necrotizing soft tissue injuries Sudden sensorineural hearing loss Acute traumatic ischemia (e.g. crush injury) Compromised grafts and flaps Intracranial abscess Selected problem wounds with arterial insufficiency (e.g. lower extremity diabetic wounds) Delayed radiation injuries (soft tissue and bonynecrosis) Refractory osteomyelitis Severe anemia The CHMEP is the only civilian hyperbaric facility in the country capable of providing saturation treatment of decompression illness.
Director Richard E. Moon, MD, CM, MSc, FRCP(C), FACP, FCCP Justin Allen, DO Bruce J. Derrick, MD (Duke Surgery) John Freiberger, MD, MPH Bryant “Bret” Stolp, MD, PhD Claude Piantadosi, MD (Duke Medicine) Key Players: anesthesiologists, emergency medicine doctors, pulmonologists, nurses and chamber technicians
Celebrating 50 Years of the
Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology
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The nation’s first and the largest civilian hyperbaric chamber. The only hyperbaric facility in the state providing emergency treatment 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.