The effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on the final outcome of patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Purpose: To evaluate the therapeutic effect of the combination of systemic steroids (SS) and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL).

Materials And Methods: Fifty patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss were allocated into 2 groups: the control group received Dexamethasone IV (SS) and the therapy group received Dexamethasone IV combined with 15 sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (SS + HBOT) as initial treatment. Hearing assessment was performed at the admission to hospital and 3 months after the onset of treatment.

Hyperbaric oxygen as salvage treatment for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a salvage treatment for patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL).

Materials And Methods: Fifteen patients affected by sudden hearing loss and treated with hyperbaric oxygen after steroid and vasodilator therapy failed constituted the study group. A control group of 30 patients who were treated with steroids and vasodilator alone was also included.

Severe lower limb crush injury and the role of hyperbaric oxygen treatment: a case report.

Open fractures with severe soft-tissue injury and critical local ischaemia of the lower limbs are usually difficult to treat and require a multidisciplinary approach. A 33-year-old Caucasian female with crush injury of the right foot (Gustillo IIIC) was admitted to hospital after a car accident. Despite surgical interventions, a persistent state of hypoxia was present because of the severe vessel injury, and amputation was suggested.

Transfusion-related acute lung injury management in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) constitutes a life threatening complication of blood transfusion. In severe TRALI cases supportive care with mechanical ventilation in intensive care unit is needed. We present two severe TRALI cases caused by leukocyte depleted, ABO compatible, packed red blood cell transfusions, coming from multiparous women donors.