{"id":1508,"date":"2021-06-15T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T01:26:03","slug":"happy-birthday-to-the-rbwh-hyperbaric-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/2021\/06\/happy-birthday-to-the-rbwh-hyperbaric-unit","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to the RBWH Hyperbaric Unit!"},"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-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-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_1524\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1524\" class=\"wp-image-1524 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/hyperbaric-f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/hyperbaric-f-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/hyperbaric-f-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/hyperbaric-f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/hyperbaric-f-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/hyperbaric-f.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy birthday to the RBWH Hyperbaric team!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Hyperbaric Medicine Service, Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital turned 11 last month.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The unit officially opened on 17 May 2010 and treated the first patient just seven days later.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On 12 May 2021 the unit performed their 10,000<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0chamber compression, an exciting milestone for the team.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The unit is currently the third busiest unit in Australia and New Zealand, after the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney and The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Three of the original staff (Bob Webb, Bridget Woodhouse and Jean Halpin) are still working in the unit.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The unit is the only one in Queensland to possess both a multi-place (3 lock) recompression chamber and a mono-place recompression chamber.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The treatment of decompression illness in SCUBA divers makes up less than five percent of the unit\u2019s workload.\u00a0\u00a0The majority of\u00a0patients are treated for soft tissue radiation injury, chronic wounds and Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss. The team provides a 24\/7 on call service and the most common reason (after decompression illness) for an urgent after-hours treatment is Central Retinal Artery Occlusion.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One of the unit\u2019s notable successes was treating a young diver retrieved from the Pacific Islands suffering from Decompression Sickness and Cerebral Arterial Gas Embolism. The patient arrived at RBWH and was immediately admitted to the ICU to be ventilated.\u00a0 The patient received eight Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments while ventilated.\u00a0 At a six week follow up the patient had no detectable abnormal neurology.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hyperbaric Medicine Service, Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital turned 11 last month. The unit officially opened on 17 May 2010 and treated the first patient just seven days later. On 12 May 2021 the unit performed their 10,000th chamber compression, an exciting milestone for the team.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal","tag-rbwh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}