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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Agreed on everything you said except I don't think there's such a thing as hyperbolic chambers, oxygen or otherwise. I would even say that is probably hyperbole (pun intended)

In all seriousness, pure oxygen is certainly very dangerous due to both fires and oxygen toxicity at increased partial pressures, but so is the pressure itself, as any diver knows. Our bodies are really not very well adapted for operation at anything very far removed from a 80/20 nitrogen/oxygen mix around 1 atmosphere of pressure, and this kind of therapy is rolling the dice with people's health and safety in so many different ways.

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