As in other maladies characterized by massive wounds or tissue destruction, hyperbaric oxygen treatment can be a valuable adjunctive therapy but is not widely available.
Fife's interest in clinical hyperbaric medicine lead to several research projects to look for new indications for the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
In hyperbaric chamber therapy, the patient or experimental subject is placed in what is essentially a decompression chamber and exposed to air with slightly higher-than-normal oxygen content.
