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London Diving Chamber

London Diving Chamber is a recompression chamber offering consultation and hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment for:

  • Scuba divers suffering from decompression illness (DCI)
  • Carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation
  • Air or gas embolism
  • Clostridial Myonecrosis (Gas gangrene)
  • Crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemias
  • Enhancement of healing in selected problem wounds
  • Exceptional blood loss (Anemia)
  • Necrotising soft tissue infections (subcutaneous tissue, muscle, fascia)
  • Osteomyelitis (Refractory)
  • Radiation tissue damage (Osteoradionecrosis)
  • Skin grafts and flaps (compromised)
  • Thermal burns
  • Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen in intracranial abscess

The London Diving Chamber is a member of The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) www.uhms.org, which has published guidelines on the use of HBO for the above treatments.

Scuba Divers and Decompression Illness (DCI)

The London diving chamber offers 24 hour advice line and NHS funded recompression for divers.

If you suspect you may have decompression illness please call 07940 353 816 immediately

For more information on decompression illness, the symptoms and dive medicine please go to www.londondivingchamber.co.uk

Other services for divers offered by The London Diving Chamber are: 

  • Dry Diving
  • Dive Medicals
  • Dive Events
  • Hyperbaric Recompression Chamber Courses
  • PADI Recompression Chamber Courses

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