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It can be brought down even faster with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Hyperbaric chambers are reasonably common, due to usage in both (SCUBA) diving related medici
by JshWright 10y ago
It can be brought down even faster with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Hyperbaric chambers are reasonably common, due to usage in both (SCUBA) diving related medicine and various therapies for wound care.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/non-traumatic_emergencies/hyperbaric_therapy_for_co_poisoning_and_decompression_sickness_134,146/ http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/non-...
- MertsA 10y ago>It can be brought down even faster with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. What's the limit on that? The link you posted says 2.5 atm of pure oxygen but how does that not cause oxygen toxicity?
- Baeocystin 10y agoAccording to the toxicity curve from wikipedia, even at 2.5 bar, you wouldn't start to see issues until ~4 hours have past. That's enough time to remove quite a bit of CO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity#/media/File:Pulmonary_toxicity_tolerance_curves.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity#/media/File:Pu...