During the night between 13 and 14 November, the COMSUBIN Oxygen Hyperbaric Therapy Center (OTI) was activated by First Aid Physicians of San Andrea Hospital in La Spezia to handle an 44-year-old mum with his two children of 5 and 7 years, victims of carbon monoxide inoculation due to the calderina malfunction of their home.
At 22.30 pm on November 13, the Emergency Department of the Sant'Andrea hospital in La Spezia alerted the COMSUBIN on-call system to carry out an emergency-urgency oxygen therapy treatment, consisting of medical officers, non-commissioned officers and nurses specialized in diving medicine and hyperbaric, as well as by divers of the Underwater Operating Group. Arriving at the OTI Center in Varignano, the patients were visited by the head of the group's health service, and then underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy which, which began at 23.59 pm, ended with a positive result at 02.07 on 14 October 2017.
Thanks to the agreement between the Local Health Service of La Spezia and the Navy, Comsubin makes available the only hyperbaric facility in the province to carry out Oxygen Therapy Hyperbaric Therapy, conducted according to precise directions and rigorous protocols of employment , are capable of ensuring the positive resolution of numerous clinical pathologies, including decompression diseases resulting from underwater activities, carbon monoxide poisoning, gangrene gangrene and crushing or fracture injuries.
Since September 2016, date of ratification of the Convention, the Diving and Inshore Pools and performed 920 Oxygen Therapy Selection and Emergency 8 in favor of civilian patients in the province of Sparta.
In addition, by the 2003, the Navy is at the forefront of territorial hyperbaric emergencies management in the province of Taranto, alongside the local healthcare company, in treating patients in the event of carbon monoxide poisoning at the Military Hospital Center in Taranto.
