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Table 14 Patient criteria of included studies focusing on the use of HBOT in thermal burns.
First Author and
Year of Publication
Patient Criteria
Brannen 1997 38 Acutely burned patients admitted within 24 hours of injury.
Niezgoda 1997 39
Healthy, non-smoking volunteers who tolerate pressurisation.
Exclusions: acute sinusitis, otitis media, pneumonia, pregnancy, active cancer, pneumothorax.
Hammarlund 1991 40 Healthy, non-smoking, male volunteers.
Cianci 1990 41 Burn patients with injuries representing 19 to 50 percent total body surface area.
Gorman 1988 42 Burn patients with injuries representing 10 to 75 percent total body surface area.
Niu 1987 43
Waisbren 1982 44 Burn patients.*
Burn patients.*
Exclusions: viral infections, untreated pneumothorax, serious otolaryngologic conditions,
claustrophobia, septic patients referred from other hospitals.
Hart 1974 45
Patients with thermal burns amounting to between 10 and 50 per cent of the total body surface
area admitted within 24 hours of injury.
Exclusions: subjects with untreated neoplasms, pneumothorax or profound claustrophobia.
* No additional details given.
Interventions examined
Subjects were exposed to HBOT in different ways in each of the eight identified studies
(Table 15). For instance, all studies that stated exposure pressures declared pressures
between 2.0 ATA and 3.0 ATA, but these pressures were not standardised across studies.
They ranged from 2 ATA41,45 to 2.4 ATA39 to 2.5 ATA43 to 2.8 ATA. 40 In three studies,
exposure pressure was not stated. 38, 42, 44
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