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This is the Scientific Surgery Archive, which contains all randomized clinical trials in surgery that have been identified by searching the top 50 English language medical journal issues since January 1998. Compiled by Jonothan J. Earnshaw, former Editor-in-Chief, BJS

The role of hyperbaric oxygen in ischaemic diabetic lower extremity ulcers: a double-blind randomised-controlled trial Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2003; 25: 513-8.

Published: 1st January 2003

Authors: Abidia A, Laden G, Kuhan G, Johnson BF, Wilkinson AR, Renwick PM et al et al.

Conclusion

Sixteen patients were randomized to receive either oxygen or air pressurized to 2.4 atmospheres for 90 min a day for 30 sessions. Five out of eight ulcers in the oxygen group healed compared to only one in the control group.

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