hyperbaric chamber
High-pressure healing pod
A hyperbaric chamber is a sealed enclosure where atmospheric pressure can be raised above normal levels.
Patients breathe pure oxygen under increased pressure, which forces more oxygen into the blood and tissues.
Medical uses include treating decompression sickness in divers, carbon monoxide poisoning, and wounds that won't heal: She underwent twenty sessions in a hyperbaric chamber.
Reduction of pressure
- recompressionRestoring elevated pressure
- bendsCurves or yields
- scubaPortable underwater breathing gear
- saturation divingUnderwater work at equilibrium
nitrogen narcosis · technical diving · depth · pressure · gas laws · buoyancy · divemaster · cave diving
Gas bubbles from pressure change
- wound healingRestoration after injury
- carbon monoxide poisoningHemoglobin oxygen blockage illness
- gas gangreneBacterial infection causing tissue death
- air embolismGas in bloodstream
crush injury · thermal burns · skin graft · osteomyelitis · gangrene · compartment syndrome · tissue repair · ischemia
Container built for high-pressure contents
- oxygen maskFace-worn breathing apparatus
- airlockTwo-doored pressure transition space
- viewportVisible display region
- compressionForcing into smaller space
pressurization · atmosphere · seal · control panel · gauge · attendant · treatment protocol · session
decompression
Reduction of pressure
- recompressionRestoring elevated pressure
- bendsCurves or yields
- scubaPortable underwater breathing gear
saturation diving · nitrogen narcosis · technical diving · depth · pressure · gas laws · buoyancy · divemaster · cave diving · wreck diving
decompression sickness
Gas bubbles from pressure change
- wound healingRestoration after injury
- carbon monoxide poisoningHemoglobin oxygen blockage illness
- gas gangreneBacterial infection causing tissue death
air embolism · crush injury · thermal burns · skin graft · osteomyelitis · gangrene · compartment syndrome · tissue repair · ischemia · barotrauma
pressure vessel
Container built for high-pressure contents
- oxygen maskFace-worn breathing apparatus
- airlockTwo-doored pressure transition space
- viewportVisible display region
compression · pressurization · atmosphere · seal · control panel · gauge · attendant · treatment protocol · session
- controlled environmentsclean room, cleanroom, laboratory, sterile room, glovebox
- maritime medicineseasickness, scurvy, ship doctor, sick bay, medical officer
- oxygen deprivationhypoxia, hypoxemia, cyanosis, blue lips, blue skin
- pressurized containersaerosol, fire extinguisher, scuba tank, oxygen tank, propane tank
- sealed chambersairlock, clean room, sterile room, flotation tank, isolation tank
- diving medicinedecompression sickness, barotrauma, the bends, bends, recompression
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