Confession: I have yet to read the piece; just responding to @wrycoder's question. A colleague of mine worked in hyperbaric immunology to discover protocols for

Confession: I have yet to read the piece; just responding to @wrycoder's question. A colleague of mine worked in hyperbaric immunology to discover protocols for anaerobic wound healing. The only protocol available then were from the Navy and it's "diving chambers" for dealing with "bends". The game was to take patient something like 300' below sea level (hyperbaric) and then a) start the antibiotics and b) turn on the oxygen flow. The high pressure drives oxygen deep into the tissues, where it would otherwise not penetrate at sea level pressures. He was working with a 14-gurney chamber at an Air Force base, using an experimental discovery system we were co-developing at the time.