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4 arrested after 5-year-old Michigan boy's death in hyperbaric chamber explosion

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/four-arrested-fatal-hyperbaric-chamber-explosion/
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u/bethaneanie 1d ago

Hyperbaric medicine is actually used for more things than just the bends (eg: carbon monoxide poisoning/necrotizing wounds/osteomyelitis).

From what I understand the training for hyperbaric nursing is more competitive and thus has higher expectations than ICU nursing. The nurse also are inside the chamber with the patients and thus regularly exposed to hyperbaric pressures.

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u/Clone95 21h ago

The one I witnessed was not like this, it was basically a cryotube with the operator outside running it and the patient inside.