Oxygen therapy revives brain of toddler who almost drowned stat : CBS News

The treatment is known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). One reason hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been met with skepticism is that it's been difficult to explain how this treatment works, he said. This one case cannot prove that hyperbaric oxygen therapy would work for others in similar situations. Although many hospitals offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the United States, Arkansas Children's Hospital -- where Eden was first treated -- is not among them. In one of the first such confirmed cases, an Arkansas toddler who suffered severe brain injury after nearly drowning has had that brain damage reversed, using a new treatment.




Her mother, Kristal Carlson, said they were told nothing could be done to help their daughter because she suffered severe brain damage. She explained her daughter is maybe the first known case of anyone to recover white and grey matter after suffering so much brain damage. We wanted her so much to recover and we started to look at different alternative methods that had been used to help people who had suffered from brain injuries." Their search led them to Dr. Paul Harch in New Orleans and his hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Kristal said before they left for Eden's first therapy session, the doctor told them to give her some oxygen on their own.

Subacute normobaric oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in drowning, reversal of brain volume loss: a case report Harch PG, Fogarty EF

Keywords: normobaric oxygen; hyperbaric oxygen; drowning; magnetic resonance imaging; brain volume; gray matter; white matterHow to cite this article:Harch PG, Fogarty EF. Subacute normobaric oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in drowning, reversal of brain volume loss: a case report. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed deep gray matter injury on day 4 and cerebral atrophy with gray and white matter loss on day 32. Subacute normobaric oxygen and HBOT were able to restore drowning-induced cortical gray matter and white matter loss, as documented by sequential MRI, and simultaneous neurological function, as documented by video and physical examinations. Corpus callosum white matter and temporal lobe gray matter calculations embedded: 3.17, 2.00, 3.57 mm, and 8.10, 6.31, and 7.75 mm, at 3, 31, and 162 days respectively.


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