• Eldritch@piefed.world
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    4 months ago

    Poor kid.

    It’s amazing how few people understand how dangerous oxygen can be. And of course by extension how dangerous hyperbaric chambers pressurized with it can be.

    They’re nowhere near as tested or safe as hyperbolic chambers.

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      4 months ago

      Agreed on everything you said except I don’t think there’s such a thing as hyperbolic chambers, oxygen or otherwise. I would even say that is probably hyperbole (pun intended)

      In all seriousness, pure oxygen is certainly very dangerous due to both fires and oxygen toxicity at increased partial pressures, but so is the pressure itself, as any diver knows. Our bodies are really not very well adapted for operation at anything very far removed from a 80/20 nitrogen/oxygen mix around 1 atmosphere of pressure, and this kind of therapy is rolling the dice with people’s health and safety in so many different ways.

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        4 months ago

        What!? Blasphemy! They’re only the best chambers ever built or conceived! I mean at the very least they’re alright, kinda.

        But yes oxygen nearly wiped out all life on earth at least once.

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    4 months ago

    On one hand I feel like the parents share some culpability in this for falling for the scam that killed their son, but I also think it’s insane that it’s even legal to run this dangerous scam clinic in the first place.

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      4 months ago

      Close, but this is a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, not a hyperbolic time chamber