The Theme of HBOT2012

How to foster the translation of the extensive body of hyperbaric scientific literature into routine clinical practice.

 

At HBOT2012 we will demonstrate how to use a translational medicine scientific structure to turn oxygen saturation technology or HBOT into a commonly used and reimbursed treatment for all of the patients who will benefit.  The International Hyperbaric Medical Foundation, using the John Eisenberg Treatment Registry, is making it possible to systematically routinize hyperbaric medical practices and integrate them into the health care system.  This includes a pathway for routine payment for HBOT treatment.

 

The historic failure to apply sound hyperbaric medical practices to routine medical problems is costing our society and our medical system untold billions of dollars.  Furthermore, untold suffering and unnecessary personal tragedies have resulted.  Hyperbaric medicine has repeatedly demonstrated it could cost-effectively improve patient outcomes.  These solutions range from routine treatment to prevent amputations, treatment of burns and frostbite, improvement in surgical procedural outcomes and preventing disability or improving a life challenged by brain insult.  Yet even for the 13 FDA-approved indications, patients seldom receive treatment.

 

In these indications, hyperbaric medicine treats numerous fundamental biological processes caused when tissues lack oxygen.  Many kinds of infection can be resolved through application of abundant amounts of oxygen.  Simply stated, sufficient oxygen is necessary for routine wound healing and optimized oxygen maximizes wound healing. 

 

The HBOT2012 conference, with presentations by many current and former hyperbaric medical school faculty, will show how to improve patient outcomes grounded in sound science. It will demonstrate how the wide-spread participation in translational medicine studies can and will drive ?best practices? and create profits for health care providers, hospitals and clinics.  HBOT provides solutions for providers and patients that no other medical system can deliver.  Outstanding patient outcomes and lower costs of delivering these better results make the hyperbaric medical community a solution provider for policy makers and patients that is on par to the invention of antibiotics that no other single system in the medical arsenal can match.

 

Conference Goals 

It is the goal of the organizers that attendees be provided with a unique opportunity to be taught by some of the most innovative practitioners in hyperbaric medicine.  Each of the presenters has been invited because of innovations or expertise in the practice of hyperbaric medicine or a related field.  The meeting will be practically focused on the systematic routinization of hyperbaric medicine into clinical practice for all instances when oxygen saturation can be expected to improve patient outcomes.

 

Conference Objectives

Each Attendee Should:

1.         Develop an understanding of how the 13 current FDA-approved indications for hyperbaric

         medicine are  related to the underlying biological and physiological actions of oxygen

         saturation in human tissues.

2.      Develop an understanding of the practical uses of translational medicine in clinical practice.

3.      Develop an understanding of how to participate in registered translational medicine studies

         and how these relate to potential improved patient outcomes.

4.      Develop an understanding of the societal impact of untreated brain insults.

5.      Develop a greater appreciation for patient behavior and challenges, especially by those who

         have experienced brain insults from trauma, military operations, or other events.

a.      Understand the implications of hyperbaric medicine on acute combat casualty care and

         its potential impact for improving emergency room operations and patient outcomes.

b.      Understand the basic protocol and scientific reasoning and results from the National

         Brain Rescue and Rehabilitation Project's NBIRR-01 study (NCT01105962)

c.      Understand the process necessary to create routine payments from third party payers for

         this new use for indication number 6.

6.      Develop an understanding of the basic concepts and protocols for the Hyperbaric Amputation

         Prevention Initiative and how it integrates with a practitioners current practice.

7.      Develop a greater understanding for Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections, an approved indication.

8.      Develop an understanding of the process of diagnosing and potentially improving patient

         outcomes for autistic patients.

9.      Develop an understanding of the potential impact of HBOT on patients with cerebral palsy or

         fetal alcohol syndrome diagnoses.

10.    Develop a better understanding the treating acute brain insult patients and how oxygen debt

         and oxygen tissue saturation play a potentially significant role in improving patient outcomes.

11.    Develop an understanding of the integration of hyperbaric medicine into routine hospital

         operations under the Hospital Outcomes and Profit System (HOPS)

a.      Develop a greater understanding of the causes of a hospital inpatient becoming an

        ?outlier? and how to assist in preventing this kind of patient deterioration through HBOT

        and other adjunctive interventions.

12.     Develop an understanding of the impact of acute and chronic brain insult treatment for key

          populations including police officers and other first responders, trauma victims and sports

          concussions.

13.    Develop a greater understanding of the potential physiological and psychological challenges

         caused by diabetes disease processes and how to mitigate them using HBOT and other

         adjunctive metabolic interventions in clinical practice.

a.      Prevention of most amputations

b.      Improvement in eyesight through HBOT treatment

c.       Improving cognitive function for improved patient self-management

d.      Understanding and mitigating potential metabolic causes and ways to mitigate Type I

         and Type II diabetes.

e.      Potential for improvement of kidney function to prevent dialysis or improve dialysis

         patient outcomes.

14.    Understand the principles of treating acute and chronic stroke patients.

15.    Develop a greater understanding of the use of pre and post surgical protocols to improve

         patient outcomes.

16.    Develop an understanding of the process of using results from translational medicine studies to

         drive improved public policy decisions, practice guidelines and routine payment for hyperbaric

         and other needed medical services.

 

The International Hyperbaric Medical Association

Creating the Future of Hyperbaric Medicine in the 21st Century

 

International Hyperbaric Medical Foundation

Dedicated to the Science and Translation of Hyperbaric Medical Discoveries into Clinical Practice.