Reading Time: 6 minutes Pre-Brief:  Most triathlons start with a mob of fit people jostling for position while sprinting headlong into the water to…

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief Most patients with carbon monoxide CO poisoning present to the emergency department with accidental exposures via indoor power…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief Calciphylaxis, or calcific uremic arteriolopathy, is a rare but life-threatening disease state most commonly but not exclusively occurring…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief In the field of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), oxygen is considered the drug, but how does it work? …

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief I want to SCUBA dive but I just had COVID Prebrief With just under 3 million active SCUBA…

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief Mucormycosis is an acute and often deadly fungal infection caused by the Mucorales order of molds Patients traditionally…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief Treating severe anemia is something many of us are no strangers to.  While most patients can be crossmatched…

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is an uncommon (2/100,000 cases per year in the U.S.) but often permanently…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief As a rapid response team member or stroke team member, we are appropriately conditioned to evaluate for the…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Outside of SCUBA diving injuries, carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is the only other indication where hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is considered primary therapy. In addition to expediting CO elimination, HBOT can, more importantly, reduce a patient’s chances of developing delayed neurologic sequelae (DNS) following CO poisoning.