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Facility is region’s only long-term acute care center providing cutting-edge hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Willingboro, New Jersey (PRWEB) May 14, 2013 In a bustling South Jersey medical community, Lourdes Specialty Hospital (LSH), the first Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) in southern New Jersey and the largest facility of its kind in the Delaware Valley, distinguishes itself as the area’s only LTACH offering an inpatient treatment that is unavailable elsewhere in the region --...

Divers Institute of Technology and Underwater Centre form alliance to provide saturation diver training to DIT students. Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) February 08, 2013 The Divers Institute of Technology (DIT), Seattle Washington and the Underwater Centre in Fort William, Scotland have formed an alliance to provide American and Canadian divers the opportunity to advance their careers in the global subsea market. The Underwater Centre offers Divers Institute of Technology graduates the...

Life Support Technologies Group (LST) has added Nicholas Bird, MD, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Diver’s Alert Network (DAN), Durham, NC to the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) accredited 40-hour Introduction to Hyperbaric Medicine course faculty for the training to be held 7-11 February, 2013 at Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC), East Meadow, NY. This training for physicians and allied health professionals is one of four (4) LST hyperbaric medicine courses...

Life Support Technologies Group (LST) has appointed Edward Golembe, MD, as Co-Clinical Director to oversee medical consultation, patient care continuum, clinical program development, hyperbaric tunneling medical supervision, hospital-based preceptorships and mentoring of MDs in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr. Golembe continues as Co-Clinical Director of LST’s accredited 40-hour Introduction to Hyperbaric Medicine course, held four times a year, in addition to his duties as...

The Life Support Technologies Group (LST) will offer four (4) accredited hyperbaric medicine training courses to physicians and allied health professionals in year 2013. Jobs in the growing field of hyperbaric medicine are available for billers, emergency medical technicians, hyperbaric technicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and physicians. Tarrytown, NY (PRWEB) January 05, 2013 The Life Support Technologies Group (LST) will offer four (4) accredited hyperbaric medicine training...

Life Support Technologies’ Corporate Compliance Officer Mark Chipps Named to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)-99 Committee. The NFPA-99 "Healthcare Facilities" Document is the National Standard for Hospital Construction, Including a Chapter on Hyperbaric Chamber Facilities. Tarrytown, NY (PRWEB) December 22, 2012 The Life Support Technologies group (LST) is pleased to announce the appointment of Corporate Compliance Officer Mark Chipps to the National Fire...

OxyHealth has taken the burden or work out of operating a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and in doing so, has helped make hyperbaric therapy the hot button modality in the medical field today. More than at any other time, hyperbaric therapy is more possible and within the reach of more patients today because of this new, accessible tool created by OxyHealth. In the past, hyperbaric therapy was often a last resort option, only available at an expensive hospital. Today it can be used much sooner...

Any diver returning from ocean depths knows about the hazard of decompression sickness (DCS) or "the bends." As the diver ascends and the ocean pressure decreases, gases that were absorbed by the body during the dive, come out of solution and, if the ascent is too rapid, can cause bubbles to form in the body. DCS causes many symptoms, and its effects may vary from joint pain and rashes to paralysis and death. But how do marine mammals, whose very survival depends on regular diving, manage...

Rehabmart.com, an online e-commerce company that sells rehabilitation and medical supplies, recently teamed up with OxyHealth, a medical industry leader in hyperbaric chamber therapy, to help make this life-saving treatment available to consumers in their homes, offices and even while they are traveling. Hyperbaric therapy, which has been widely used since the 1930s to help cure decompression sickness in deep sea divers, is now being recognized as a valuable treatment for other ailments...

SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Three of the four chambers for the USAF Research Altitude Chamber System are due to arrive at Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) within the next few weeks for final assembly. ETC's Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) business unit is manufacturing the RAC system for the United States Air Force to be used to support the USAF's research needs. Each of the chambers will be externally pressure tested prior to arriving at ETC...