The Center for Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, of the Portuguese Navy, is collaborating in the elaboration of a clinical trial protocol that aims to study the effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy associated with medically assisted procreation techniques. The test is called Hyperbaric Oxygen in “poor ovarian responses” or, in a reduced form, FertyOx.
The participation of the Center for Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine (CMSH) in the trial arises from a proposal presented by Miguel Raimundo (specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics, and distinguished in Reproductive Medicine) who is researching in this area.
With this clinical trial, CMSH hopes to contribute to a greater understanding of the impact of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in this area and thus to be able to help a greater number of women who suffer from the same problem.
The Center for Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, created in 1989, was the first organization in our country to use Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, not only for the treatment of diving accidents, but also as a co-adjuvant therapy in various diseases, both in the military context and in the support to civil society.
It collaborates in several operational diving missions as well as participates in the training of the military.
This center bases its practice of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on the recommendations of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society, European entity that regulates the practice of this activity.
With this treatment, «it is possible to significantly improve certain disease situations, positively interfering with wound healing, hearing recovery from sudden deafness, controlling bleeding in lesions caused by radiotherapy, detoxifying carbon monoxide, controlling infections serious injuries, among others", explains the Navy.
The Center for Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine has two hyperbaric chambers that make it possible to treat various diseases by inhaling pure oxygen under pressure conditions above atmospheric pressure at sea level.
«Participation in research studies is a vehement desire of the center in order to provide an increasingly avant-garde, developed and progressive medicine to Portuguese citizens», emphasizes the Navy.
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