Brain Injury
Wed, 01/21/2009 - 18:28 | 
Juliette Lucari...
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. After one month he was transferred to a highly regarded post-acute brain injury rehabilitation center in Southeast Louisiana where he remained for 3 months. During these three months he made such minimal progress that he was discharged as a failure of standard intensive traumatic brain injury therapy. The day before discharge from this center his mother attended a local church where she asked the priest to request that the congregation pray for her son’s recovery. After the priest fulfilled this request during Mass Mrs.
Tags: Wed, 03/17/2010 - 11:21 | HBOT Staff
Study: Hyperbaric therapy treats brain injuries
By ELLYN COUVILLION
Advocate staff writer
Published: Mar 16, 2010
Promising results from an LSU pilot study that treated veterans suffering traumatic brain injury with hyperbaric oxygen therapy have led to a national trial that will be launched in the coming weeks.
Dr. Paul Harch, a clinical associate professor with the LSU Interim Public Hospital in New Orleans, presented the cases of 15 military veterans during a meeting of the Eighth World Congress of the International Brain Injury Association in Washington, D.C. The cases all involved veterans who were helped by the treatments.
On Monday, Harch participated in a teleconference to explain the treatment process and trial results to journalists.
To date, Harch has treated nearly 40 veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury, usually as a result of explosions, with the hyperbaric oxygen therapy originally developed to help deep-sea divers suffering from brain decompression illness.
Thu, 03/04/2010 - 04:26 | HBOT Staff
Dr. Harch, a hero in the making for brain injury patients
From the Digital Journal
Sadly when it comes to obtaining this treatment governments do not currently cover the costs.New research on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treatment(HBOT) for TBI will be presented next week at the 8th World Congress on Brain Injury in Washington DC.
After the initial positive findings of two Airmen who were treated with HBOT after being disabled during a roadside burning were complete Dr. Harch returned to continue his study.
Fifteen symptomatic U.S. military veterans who had been diagnosed by either military or civilian neuropsychologists and neurologists for TBI from blast-induced PCS(2) or PCS/PTSD(13) took part in the second study.
Subjects completed cognitive testing, brain imaging (identical to the imaging in the online case above in Cases Journal) , symptom and quality of life questionnaires, and affective measures pre and immediately post a course of forty HBOT sessions. The sessions took place twice a day, five days a week for four weeks.
After the thirty day course of HBOT treatment the subjects all showed significant symptomatic, cognitive, and affective improvements.
Mon, 08/03/2009 - 04:39 | Paul Harch
Tomorrow night (Mon. 8/3/09) on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric there will be a special piece on a veteran that has been followed by 60 Minutes and CBS since his injury 5 years ago in Iraq. He is a double amputee with a brain injury who recently underwent HBOT in New Orleans at our clinic for his TBI. Because of the severity of his injury he was not treated under the current LSU pilot trial that I am conducting. Instead, he became one of my private patients, received the exact same protocol as the study patients, and benefited accordingly. He was so moved by his experience that he called CBS to report the latest chapter in his recovery. I have not seen the final edited segment, but believe that it highlights his plight in the military medical system. I hope it is positive.
Tue, 04/28/2009 - 15:06 | Juliette Lucari...
Unseen Menace: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treatments for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Thu, 03/05/2009 - 17:09 | Juliette Lucari...
I was initially injured in April 2003 when an ammunition bunker in Iraq was detonated within close proximity to my location. The concussion was tremendous and the negative effects immediate. Later on, after brain surgery to fix some damaged blood vessels, the disabilities became even more evident. Then, on March 1, 2007, I was in my home when an F4 tornado torn the place apart all around me. The sudden pressure changes from that event left me literally unable to cope with life. Everything was so confusing, overwhelming and frustrating, I would seek out the darkest areas of our rebuilt house and sit in confused agony for hours at a time. Often, not remembering what I had done earlier in the day, much less the events of the days before.
Wed, 02/11/2009 - 06:56 | Paul Harch
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Tue, 02/10/2009 - 16:06 | Paul Harch
Kevin Barrett, Paul Harch, Brent Masel, James Patterson, Kevan Corson, Jon Mader. The Transitional Learning Community at Galveston, 1528 Postoffice St., Galveston, TX 77550; and UTMB, Division Hyperbaric Medicine Galveston, TX
Background: Following severe traumatic brain injury, cognitive improvement is most dramatic the first six months following injury and largely static after 18 months. Anecdotal reports exist that attest to the efficacy of HBOT to improve posttraumatic neurologic deficits by increasing blood flow in the ischemic penumbra despite protocol differences, CBF, speech, neurological and cognitive testing have not been studied serially in patients undergoing HBOT for chronic stable TBI.
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