Article
Safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in patients with heart failure: A retrospective review
2023-10-14
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has several hemodynamic effects including increases in afterload (due to vasoconstriction) and decreases in cardiac output. This, along with rare reports of pulmonary edema during emergency treatment, has led providers to consider HBOT relatively contraindicated in patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). However, there is limited evidenc...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 23c98a8b-5107-5944-87a5-fe1a079b7e97
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.10.13.23297029
