{"id":18451,"date":"2018-08-02T13:09:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=18451"},"modified":"2018-08-02T13:09:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:09:37","slug":"hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-used-for-the-first-time-in-antigua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-used-for-the-first-time-in-antigua\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy used for the first time in Antigua"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ministry of Health today hailed as a “milestone in Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s medical history” the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the first time.<\/p>

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The technology was at the Mount St. John\u2019s Medical Center during the early hours of the morning on Monday, August 1st,<\/sup> 2018.<\/p>\n

The hyperbaric oxygen therapy was used to treat decompression sickness, commonly known as \u201cthe bends\u201d, in a 27-year-old diver from Urlings Village.<\/p>

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It was delivered through a hyperbaric chamber that was installed at the hospital earlier this year through a philanthropic donation from the Calvin Ayre Foundation.<\/p>

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The donation not only included the purchase and installation of the chamber but also training for doctors, nurses and technicians at the hospital.<\/p>\n

These healthcare providers were able to utilize their new skills in Monday morning\u2019s life-saving exercise.<\/p>

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Prior to the hyperbaric chamber being used in Antigua and Barbuda, divers who contracted decompression sickness or \u201cthe bends\u201d, a life-threatening complication of diving, would succumb to the illness.<\/p>\n

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The Ministry of Health Wellness and the Environment is expressing gratitude to the Calvin Ayre Foundation for their donation that will potentially save the lives of divers in Antigua and Barbuda. Appreciation is also extended the doctors, nurses, technicians and other healthcare workers at the Mount St. John\u2019s Medical Center.<\/p>

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Over the last three years, the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment has overseen \u00a0the country\u2019s first kidney transplant, the first cardiac pacemaker insertion, the first use of a bloodmobile unit, the first community pediatric specialty clinic and now the first use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy at Mount St. John\u2019s Medical Center.<\/p>

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