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  • A patient suffering from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning was sent to a hyperbaric chamber facility after receiving a blood transfusion.
  • The treatment included three sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, along with steroids and other support measures.
  • The patient recovered fully without any lasting psychiatric or neurological issues.

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A semicomatose victim of presumed carbon monoxide poisoning was referred to our hyperbaric chamber facility from a local Japanese hospital after having been treated with an exchange transfusion of 2 L. whole blood. A series of three hyperbaric oxygenation dives, steroid therapy, and supportive measures were used to successfully revive him from semicoma. He has since displayed no signs or symptoms of psychiatric or neurological sequelae.

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