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dive medicine
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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.