A Lehi wellness center and its neighbors were rocked in May when a hard-sided hyperbaric oxygen chamber exploded — with two people inside.
State and local authorities can include these standards in their requirements. Utah’s state boiler code, for example, says “pressure vessels” located at businesses or “any place where workers or the public may be exposed to risks” from their operation need to meet “the latest applicable provisions” in ASME’s guidelines; ASME-compliant chambers will be marked with a placard.
But Utah County has not adopted NFPA 99 in its code for chambers in any settings, and neither Lehi police nor Lehi fire issued a citation to Revive Infrared Spa. Officials could determine, generally, that using a noncompliant chamber made a business or a building unsafe, but that would be a potential violation of a local government’s building code or licensing rules, DeVoogd said.
The manufacturer, Classic Hyperbarics, builds single and double-occupancy hard-sided hyperbaric chambers and sells them out of its headquarters in Chino Valley, Ariz. Its chambers are advertised for “affordable, in-home use” — a distinction that exempts them from regulatory scrutiny faced by chambers used in health care settings.
And in order for a company to “legally market any chamber for human occupancy for therapeutic purposes,” he said, the chamber “has to be cleared by the FDA.” Utah officials now are dealing with another gap in regulations — as new “mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy” chambers, which are soft-sided “bag” chambers, emerge. These cheaper options operate at much lower pressures than medical chambers, but are still pressurized.until there are clearer safety regulations on the books.
It was “torture,” he said, and he was desperate. At one point, he asked if he could be placed in a medically induced coma while his brain healed. In White’s case, the pure oxygen is thought to have helped him rebuild neural pathways and repair damaged tissue in his brain, he said. The improvement he saw at Weaver’s clinic was just the beginning of his recovery.
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