On the evening of January 2, the Hyperbaric Medicine Service of the Military Hospital Center of Taranto was activated by the doctors of the emergency room of the "SS Annunziata" hospital in the Apulian city to treat the components of a nucleus with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, in an emergency. Ginosa's family member (father of 50, two sons of 18 and 9 and a daughter of 13), victims of severe carbon monoxide poisoning, which occurred in the home.
The four members of the family unit were transported to the emergency room of the Tarantino hospital in red code and, after the initial investigations, the on-call system was alerted to perform emergency-urgency hyperbaric oxygen therapy, with the help of staff from the Navy (medical officers, non-commissioned officers, nurses, military divers and civilian technicians) and medical specialists (hyperbaric resuscitators) of the ASL.
In a short time the patients were transferred by ambulance to the hyperbaric implant of the military hospital of Taranto, where the only hyperbaric implant in the Ionian province is active, to carry out the first hyperbaric oxygen treatment, and at the end they were reported to the "SS Annunziata" to be hospitalized and to carry out, in the following days, the cycle of daily sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, foreseen for this type of pathology.
Conducted according to precise indications and rigorous employment protocols, theOxygen Hyperbaric Therapy (OTI) is able to guarantee clinical results that are sometimes unthinkable. So decompression sickness resulting from underwater activities, carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, crushing injuries or fractures at risk and many other diseases can be treated at the military hospital of Taranto.
Since 2003, the Navy has been at the forefront in the management of territorial hyperbaric emergencies alongside the Local Health Authority and, in the period 2012 - 2016, 17 patients (for a total of 68 sessions) were treated specifically for monoxide poisoning. carbon from the military hospital center of Taranto.
