18 October 2009
Finally, somebody is making the world aware of HBO. Let's help.
Oct/23/09 01:02 PM
Dr. William A Duncan, Phd is saving the world one patient and one Congressman at a time through his tireless efforts to raise awareness of the life-changing work of Dr. Paul Harch and hyperbaric oxygen for brain injury. We should all be thankful, and we should all help because in the end we'll be helping our loved ones.You can help by making a financial contribution to the National Brain Injury Rescue & Rehabilitation Project at NBIRRfund.org. It was originally hoped the NBIRR would receive Congressional funding, but that was derailed by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in collaboration with Allene Creacy and the American Association of Hyperbaric Awareness (AAHA).
Instead of acknowledging the near 20 year success and expertise of Dr. Harch in the treatment of TBI, the UHMS good old boy network was funded to "study" HBO for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at Brooks Air Force Base here in San Antonio. The Creacy/AAHA/UHMS protocol is a dangerous 90 minute treatment at 2.4 ATA. This is a wound healing protocol known to produce adverse results for brain injured people, including seizures and even death. There have been persistent yet unconfirmed reports of at least two suicides in the San Antonio study.
Another San Antonio participant experienced Grand Mal seizures at 23 treatments of 2.4 ATA. His wife demanded San Antonio investigators drop the pressure to 1.5. The seizures abated, but nine 1.5 treatments later, he was not only forced out of the study but immediately transferred 2000 miles away to South Carolina.
Despite the institutional favoritism toward the UHMS, American patriots Duncan and Harch, have put together a national network of 80 hyperbaric facilities willing to treat our PTSD/TBI soldiers working on a shoestring budget through private contributions, Dr. Duncan is single-handedly serving as administrator of both the International Hyperbaric Medical Association (IHMA) and the International Hyperbaric Medical Foundation (IHMF). Throughout, he still somehow finds the time and energy to go door-to-door through the halls of the United States Congress to inform the decision-makers that there really is a cost-effective way to reform US healthcare.
The Duncan initiative is called the National Brain Injury Rescue & Rehabilitation Project (NBIRR), and hyperbaric clinics are lined up all across the country to participate. Under the leadership of Dr. Paul Harch, they're treating brain-injured veterans suffering from PTSD and TBI. The whole thing is IRB-approved, which means the results will be published and lead to changing the standard of care for TBI and PTSD.
Dr. Duncan's pitch is "HBOT 1.5." It's a catchy sounding phrase that has a nice Madison Avenue-ish ring to it that makes you want to ask what the one point five refers to. That's 1.5 Atmospheres Absolute (ATA), a treatment protocol for brain injury first discovered by Neubauer as the most optimum protocol for fixing injured brains.
Harch confirmed the 1.5 Rx when he stepped out years ago, risking his career, his reputation, and even his license to practice medicine when he was the first physician in North America with the guts to finally treat a cerebral palsy child with HBO. Besides CP, Harch brought people out of comas, erased the trauma from TBI, unstuck stroke patients, stilled the tremors of Parkinson's, and restored memory to Alzheimers. Harch was also the first physician in North America to treat an autistic child with HBO.Throughout, he's spent more time with patients instead of publishers so he rarely gets the credit he actually deserves. Maybe the NBIRR project will change that. Let's all help. Let's all donate today.