Two Airmen Recover Because of HBOT 1.5TM February 15, 2010 -- In January, a Peer Reviewed Journal published a case series report regarding two airmen who were casualties of an IED in Iraq. Both were going to be medically boarded out of the service. Their military physician prescribed Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT 1.5TM ). Both of them recovered and they were both retained on active duty. The article is attached as Appendix A. This protocol is the exact protocol the International Hyperbaric Medical Association began sharing with DoD in 2001 and testified to Congress about in 2002 and twice in 2004. This effort is called the National Brain Injury Rescue & Rehabilitation Project (NBIRR). NBIRR will directly impact the greatest public health crisis of our age, untreated brain insults including traumatic brain injury. Federal, state and local budgets are paying for the consequences of modern medicine failing to treat brain insults with protocols that biologically repair brain damage. Lost performance and aberrant behavior of injured individuals costs billions and billions each and every year in entitlement, prison, education, and safety net programs, not to mention the challenges faced by current and past combat veterans. The case series report is authored by Colonel James Wright, M.D., at Hurlburt Field in Florida (720th Special Tactics Group); plus Eddie Zant, M.D., treating physician; and Robert E. Schlegel, PhD, PE, the developer of the DoDs ANAM neuropsychological battery. Colonel Wright had previously directed all Air Force Aerospace and Hyperbaric Medicine Research at Brooks City AFB in Texas, and trained physicians in the use of hyperbaric medicine so they could become board certified. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is FDA-cleared for many kinds of non-healing wounds and is the only FDA-approved non-hormonal treatment approved to repair and regenerate human tissue. It causes a biological repair to tissue damaged by a lack of oxygen or compromised circulation and signals DNA to begin the healing process. Tricare and VA reimburse for most hyperbaric indications, including non-healing wounds, but do not routinely pay for treatment for persons who recover or make significant improvement from their brain injuries after they have been treated with HBOT. The Airmen were treated with the Harch HBOT 1.5TM treatment protocol in September of 2008, one month after Dr. Harch presented the first five combat casualties results to the Surgeon General of the Navy on August, 14, 2008. While the SG was studying HBOT 1.5TM, Colonel Wright looked at the presentation from the August 14th meeting and applied it to these two airmen with dramatic results, as outlined in the article. He had seen the story of the two airmen in his local paper. #HBOT hbot4u
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