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Hyperbaric Oxygen
UK sources of information and / or support
British Hyperbaric Association
This site covers facilities offering, and the practice of, diving and hyperbaric medicine within the United Kingdom. Includes information on Carbon Monoxide Helpline and Diving Accident Helpline.
Hyperbaric Medicine Unit
From Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Includes information about hyperbaric oxygen treatment for:
- The bends (decompression sickness)
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Wounds
The website also has information about other diving related medical problems such as: nitrogen narcosis, hypothermia, oxygen toxicity and barotrauma.
London Diving Chamber
A recompression chamber based in London. Theunit offers 24 hour consultation and NHS funded recompression for diverswith decompression illness. The chamber also provides Hyperbaric oxygentherapy for other conditions that respond to treatment.The website includes information on decompression illness (DCI) andother dive medicine issues.Other services offered by The London Diving Chamber: Diving medicals,dry dives, dive events, hyperbaric and PADI recompression chamber courses.
Hyperbaric Chambers in the UK
Provides contact details for people requiring urgent information on diving emergencies. From UKDivers.com.
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- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
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- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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