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Recompression Therapy
Contraindications to recompression therapy
Patients with pneumothorax require How To Do Tube and Catheter Thoracostomy before recompression therapy unless the pneumothorax is small and the patient is being treated in a multiplace chamber with staff and equipment required to treat tension pneumothorax immediately available. Relative contraindications include Obstructive lung disorders Upper respiratory or sinus infections Severe heart failure Recent ear surgery or injury Claustrophobia Recent chest surgery Pregnancy is generally considered a contraindication for the treatment of chronic conditions with multiple hyperbaric treatments. (See table.) However, the risk to the fetus of a single hyperbaric treatment for an acute condition such as carbon monoxide poisoning is felt to be less than the risk of leaving the condition untreated. 