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Hyperbaric Oxygenation

Medical Definition:	The therapeutic intermittent administration of oxygen in a chamber at greater than sea-level atmospheric pressures (three atmospheres). It is considered effective treatment for air and gas embolisims, smoke inhalation, acute carbon monoxide poisoning, caisson disease, clostridial gangrene, etc. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
Guide Notes:	do not use /util except by MeSH definition; coord IM with disease /ther (IM), not /drug ther

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