The Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) has started using hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for COVID-19 patients in critical condition. Currently it is the only hospital in the Philippines using HBOT to avoid intubation in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Check out the news article here.
For more information about the forward-thinking hyperbaric medicine program developed by my friends and colleagues at SPMC, check out this previous post.
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Dr. Quintar in Jujuy, Argentina, treated over 300 COVID patients with very good outcome. He shared the results for the first 100. This is the larger number of patient treated for COVID with hyperbaric that I have knowledge of…