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BEWARE ALL PATIENTS SEEKING Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)!
Submitted by HBOT Staff on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 20:16.
BEWARE ALL PATIENTS SEEKING Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)!
With increasing regularity hyperbaric facilities, their staff, and physicians have been marketing and announcing their services with statements to patients claiming training by Dr. Harch, consulting services with Dr. Harch, use of "Harch Protocols" only, business and collaborative relationships with Dr. Harch, etc. All of these claims are FRAUDULENT. All contractual relationships with Dr. Harch will be listed on HBOT.COM website only and/or links provided to the contractors from our website.
Any representation of a business relationship with Dr. Harch not mentioned on this website is a misrepresentation and attempt to defraud the patient. We would request your reporting this to us since patients have been harmed by individuals practicing medicine without a license. Clinics are luring patients for hyperbaric oxygen therapy without proper training or knowledge claiming safety and effectiveness based on a relationship with Dr. Harch.
These clinics are claiming detailed knowledge of the practice of hyperbaric medicine, in particular, the neurological application of HBOT based on a professional or personal relationship with Dr Harch. Please do not hesitate to call us for clarification. Dr Harch's private office (504)309-4948 or (504)304-5877
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Sidath suffered a devastating attack of strep meningitis
Submitted by Juliette Lucari... on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 16:53.
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Three years ago our son Sidath suffered a devastating attack of strep meningitis. It was initially misdiagnosed as the flu and 24 hours later when the diagnosis of meningitis was made Sidath had already slipped into a coma. He remained in a semi comatose state for the next six months and suffered every side effect of the horrible infection. He needed VP shunts to clear the fluid from his brain and a g tube to nourish him. Unfortunately the shunts either malfunctioned or got infected making it necessary for him to have 10 shunt revisions (brain surgeries) within a six month period.
The New Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Submitted by Paul Harch on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 19:01.
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The New Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy HBOT has been traditionally used in the United States for a narrow list of 13 typically reimbursed indications. However, in Russia, China, the Far East, the U.K., and Europe HBOT has been applied to a variety of neurological and non-neurological diagnoses since the 1970s. In the United States Dr. Harch has been applying HBOT to the typically reimbursed indications since 1986 and a wide range of neurological and other off-label conditions since 1989. In addition, he has performed research on HBOT in 50 or more neurological conditions.
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Free HBOT Video - Astounding recovery Curt made after HBOT treatment
Submitted by Juliette Lucari... on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 18:28.
Curt Allen, Jr. was a 17 year old man who was involved in a high speed motor vehicle accident in June, 2004, in which he sustained severe traumatic brain injury. Curt was in a coma at the scene of the accident. He was admitted to an acute care hospital, underwent brain surgery to relieve pressure and placed in the ICU in critical condition.
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Introduction Video to the HBOT 2010 Conference
Submitted by Infinitee on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 03:10.
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NPR/Pro Publica series recent report on veterans suicides and treatment for TBI and PTSD
Submitted by HBOT Staff on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 03:57.
"We are treating TBI/PTSD, we are restoring lives - not just talking about it!" states Juliette from Dr Harch's office.
Following the recent NPR/ProPublica series on veteran suicides and treatment for TBI and PTSD Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma called for an emergent hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. During the hearing General Chandler (Vice Chief of Staff, Air Force), mentioned to Senator Levin that the Air Force was having success treating airmen with hyperbaric oxygen. While not specifically stated General Chandler was likely referring to the experience of Dr. Eddie Zant in Fort Walton Beach, Florida who had been treating brain injured airmen from nearby Eglin Air Force Base. Dr. Zant has treated over a dozen brain injured airmen using the HBOT protocol developed for chronic TBI by Dr. Paul Harch of LSU School of Medicine, New Orleans. Dr. Harch is the founding president of the International Hyperbaric Medical Association and current president of the International Hyperbaric Medical Foundation. IHMF. Dr. Harch submitted the unsolicited attached "Testimony for the Record" to the Committee in June calling attention to the possible contribution of off-label FDA blackbox labeled drugs to the suicide epidemic in U.S. veterans. The testimony also announced to the committee the effectiveness of HBOT in the treatment of blast-induced TBI, the possibility of preventing suicides if HBOT could be delivered in a timely fashion, and the commencement of N-BIRR, the National Brain Injury Rescue and Rehabilitation Project. At Senator Inhofe’s direction Dr. Harch’s testimony will be included in the hearing record.
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Request for Appointment to Discuss HR4568, the "TBI Treatment Act,"
Submitted by HBOT Staff on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 05:04.
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International Hyperbaric Medical Association8210 Cinder Bed Road Ste C - 3, Lorton, Virginia 22079 - 1135 (540) 720 - 3844 Phone (540) 720 - 7454 Fax |
Senator Washington, DC 20510
Request for Appointment to Discuss HR4568, the "TBI Treatment Act," Added to the House Armed Services Bill and Effective Treatment to Biologically Repair Brain Injury, PTSD, and Depression
Dear Senator: June 9, 2010
Last week the House added HR4568, the TBI Treatment Act, to HR 5136, the House Armed Services bill. We urge the Senate to add this same provision to the Senate Armed Services bill or recede to the House provision. With its inclusion, war veterans can begin receiving treatment that works for TBI or PTSD.
The TBI Treatment Act is endorsed by the House Brain Injury Caucus. It makes it possible for members of the Armed Forces and veterans to seek treatment from civilian physicians who are successful at treating traumatic brain injury or post - traumatic stress disorder. There are civilian physicians have had war veterans make remarkable recoveries under their care. Unfortunately bureaucratic agendas have prevented access. The TBI Treatment Act creates a mechanism so that these veterans can get the latest treatment, and return to productive lives and careers. These treatments have already saved many millions of tax dollars for war - injured veterans, and many have already paid for themselves.
For example, the International Brain Research Foundation has been able to successfully awaken 84% of coma victims from their comas , thus greatly reducing the costs of a severe TBI patient. However, DoD medicine has not been willing to reimburse for this treatment. Awakening a patient from a coma saves $2,000 per day in medical costs . This bill would reimburse for every successfully awakened war veteran.
On March 12th, at the 8th World International Brain Injury conference, Dr. Paul Harch of Louisiana State University's School of Medicine, presented the results of his study of treatment of blast injured veterans using hyperbaric oxygen therapy to biologically repair brain injuries.These veterans experienced a statistically significant 15 point IQ increase (the equivalent difference between a high school dropout and a college graduate), a 40% reduction in post concussion syndrome symptoms, a 30% reduction in post - traumatic brain injury symptoms, and a 51% reduction in concussive depression.
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Testimony for the record: Effective Treatment Exists for Mild-Moderate TBI & PTBD
Submitted by HBOT Staff on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 06:02.
| Carl Levin, Chairman John McCain, Ranking Minority Member Senate Armed Services Committee United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510
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Ike Skelton, Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, Ranking Member House Armed Services Committee United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515
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TESTIMONY FOR THE RECORD: Suicides in U.S. Military Personnel, Veterans of the War in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Core Medical Treatment for Mild-Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury & PTSD
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DR. Paul Harch treats Iraq vet Casey Owens - CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
Submitted by HBOT Staff on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 04:42.
Harch treats Iraq vet Casey Owens - CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
An excerpt from the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric 4/13/2010
Here Dr. Paul Harch, MD (HBOT.com) treats Iraq veteran Casey Owens. Owens lost both legs and the beginning of the story recounts Casey's attempts to heal one of his legs. What was probably part of this original story is the ironic fact that the VA could have used HBOT to heal his leg as well as his brain, albeit by utilizing different protocols. Chronic wound healing requires pressures above 2 ATA while brain-injury repair is usually below 2 ATA, usually 1.5 ATA. This video was first broadcast on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on August 3, 2009.
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A New and Promising Treatment for Soldiers With Traumatic Brain Injuries
Submitted by HBOT Staff on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 03:59.
HDNet World Report Investigates a New and Promising Treatment for Soldiers With Traumatic Brain Injuries
An excerpt from the HDNet World Report website 4/13/2010
On tonight's "HDNet World Report" correspondent Carol McKinley travels to Louisiana to investigate what may be a big breakthrough in treating the estimated 320,000 veterans returning from war with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – that treatment is called hyperbaric oxygen therapy or H-BOT.
During the H-BOT treatment, patients are exposed to pure oxygen, one hour at a time, in an airtight chamber.
The man behind this new therapy is Dr. Paul Harch, who has been treating soldiers at his clinic outside of New Orleans with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
"What is theorized is that there are damaged brain cells that aren't yet dead, they are disabled," Harch tells McKinley. "It's like a car that's broken and can only go in first gear, somehow it [the oxygen] is restoring energy metabolism capability to cells."
"I was definitely skeptical," said Margaux Mange, a former MP who served in Iraq and is now being treated with H-BOT. "I mean I've been through brain surgery. Oxygen? I was like...how's that gonna help? But I'm a believer!"
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