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Article: Portable hyperbaric chamber saves limbs.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- August 13, 2003
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2003 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advanced Healthcare Technologies, Inc., (AVHC) announced that in two recent cases AVHC's Topical Hyperbaric Oxygen Extremity Chambers were used to treat patients suffering from diabetes who had non-healing infected wounds on their extremities.
Both patients were facing the threat of below the knee amputations.
Frank Rossi, medical director of the St. Francis Hospital Wound Care Center in New Jersey and wound care expert, was recently called to consult on a diabetic patient with renal failure who had extensive gangrene on four toes on the left foot. The vascular surgeon had pronounced him unable to undergo bypass ...