{"id":7577,"date":"2015-05-22T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/uncategorized\/milestone-hyperbaric-medicine-service\/"},"modified":"2015-05-22T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T23:30:14","slug":"milestone-hyperbaric-medicine-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/news\/milestone-hyperbaric-medicine-service","title":{"rendered":"Milestone for Hyperbaric Medicine Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Milestone for Hyperbaric Medicine Service<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_521\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521\" class=\"wp-image-7578 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Hyperbaric-patient-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Patient Matthew Tarrant celebrates with Hyperbaric Medicine Service staff at the RBWH.\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Hyperbaric-patient-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Hyperbaric-patient-214x150.jpg 214w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Hyperbaric-patient-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Hyperbaric-patient-400x280.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/Hyperbaric-patient.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patient Matthew Tarrant celebrates with Hyperbaric Medicine Service staff at the RBWH.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital (RBWH) Hyperbaric Medicine Service celebrated its 5th anniversary and 15,000th treatment on 21 May<\/p>\n<p>Among those celebrating the milestone was patient Matthew Tarrant.<\/p>\n<p>Matt, who has Type 1 diabetes, was treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy after sustaining a severe burn to his foot from a hot water bottle.<\/p>\n<p>He was facing potential amputation when he commenced treatment at the Hyperbaric Medicine Service. However, after only two weeks of treatment, there were noticeable improvements to Matt\u2019s burn and signs of healing.<\/p>\n<p>Having now completed the full treatment, Matt\u2019s skin graft has healed and full feeling has returned to his foot. Matt described the treatment and staff as \u201cabove and beyond his expectations\u201d and as a \u201cblessing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has long been accepted as the treatment for decompression illness or the bends but can also treat radiation induced injuries, chronic non-healing wounds and a range of other conditions including Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing loss and carbon monoxide poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>A leader in its field, the RBWH Hyperbaric Medicine Service provides 24-hour on call medical advice for recreational and commercial diving incidents, as well as national and international operational support and accreditation for the safe practice of Hyperbaric Medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital (RBWH) Hyperbaric Medicine Service celebrated its 5th anniversary and 15,000th treatment on 21 May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}