Yes I did have oxygen. Which is about the only treatment that can be done without a chamber.
Kharon:
You are laughable... People are laughing at you, not with you.
I know you can't make a horse drink... but I'm bored, so I'll lead you there anyway. Even though I know you're not a technical diver, and don't really have any experience with any of this, I'll lay it out for you. Keep in mind, my best friends are at the highest levels of the medical field, some of them were my business partners in that field. I am at the upper echelon of the insurance world professionally. My 2nd job, diving, puts me at the top levels of the technical diving world. So, please, by all means, keep telling us how you're more qualified to make better assessments of the situation.
Imagine this... Because this was a REAL incident recently.
You've just discovered you are bent. You're literally 20 minutes from the nearest chamber, but what you don't know is that 6 weeks ago, they quit doing diving medicine. But you've already called 911. My clients, some of which are EMT's, Police and Fire Men have no idea that their hospital doesn't serve the diving public anymore. Someone picks you up and drives you to the hospital, with cool flashing lights and loud sirens and everything.... yay! You get to the hospital and the Intake Nurse checks your bp, ekg, etc. She thinks it's a stroke or heart attack. They don't care what YOU think it is, so they keep pursuing stroke/heart attack. It's not until 3 hours later when they've eliminated every other issue, then they finally concede that maybe this is a diving injury. But wait.... they don't treat DCS. So, this hospital which is 3 HOURS AWAY from the nearest chamber that treats DCS arranges an ambulance to take you to Orlando. It takes an hour to get you ready to go, leaving one hospital to go to another hospital. You get in the truck, and head to Orlando where the Hyperbaric staff is waiting. 7 hours have now passed. You get admitted again and almost 9 hours after the initial symptom you are FINALLY receiving treatment in a chamber. Oh and guess what, the neurological hit you took that took so long to treat caused partial paralysis, 6 months later you'll start to regain motion and feeling. Yay.
Yah, in my panic (sarcasm), I decided to forego my buddy spending 9 hours being misdiagnosed, untreated and driven half way across the state while he suffers and faces possible irreversible damage. Instead, I left High Springs and was in the Orlando facility in 90 minutes. Thank God I had DAN to smooth the way and direct the path. Thank DAN for covering the co-payment that Blue Cross and Blue Shield didn't cover.
But go ahead Kharon, your way seems much better.