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About Us
Welcome to
Atlantic Enterprise UK Ltd, a specialist hyperbaric provider. We provide hyperbaric services to divers in
Poole, Dorset and at
The London Diver Clinic in Highgate, London. The chambers provide NHS emergency and routine
hyperbaric oxygen treatment services for the community. The London facility, based at Highgate Hospital, can be contacted on the emergency pager: 07767 348464
Founded in 1990, we have been providing hyperbaric oxygen services for over
15 years. We are registered as a specialist hyperbaric unit with the Healthcare
Commission and are able to treat critically ill patients requiring ventilatory
support.
We are members of the British Hyperbaric Association, the UK home for the hyperbaric
community, and have two twin-lock recompression chambers available. The facility
is staffed by a team of dedicated hyperbaric specialists, from Doctors to technicians,
and a
24 hour emergency
call out system is in operation.
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Funding
Private and NHS treatments can be undertaken at the Poole hyperbaric centre.
Emergency treatments covered by the NHS are :-
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Decompression illness
- Arterial gas embolism
- Selected soft tissue infections
Recompression for diving accidents and injuries are treated at the Poole hyperbaric
facility as an NHS service.
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Partners
Providing an excellent, year round 24 hour emergency service would not be possible
without the valued support of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Poole Hospital
NHS Trust and Dorset Ambulance.
If you are unfortunate enough to require their assistance, then you will have
seen first hand their dedication and professionalism.
The swift response of the Coastguard and the Search and Rescue helicopter makes
it possible for diving casualties to be at the hyperbaric unit being assessed
in the shortest possible time.
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Treatments
We treat patients with a range of conditions, from problem wounds to life threatening
arterial gas embolism, soft tissue infection and carbon monoxide poisoning.
The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) has a list of 13 conditions
where it is currently felt that hyperbaric oxygen treatment can be beneficial.
They are :-
- Air or Gas Embolism
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Decompression Sickness (The Bends)
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation
- Gas Gangrene
- Crush Injury and Traumatic Wounds
- Problem Wounds
- Compromised Skin Grafts, Flaps and Replants
- Necrotising Soft Tissue Infections
- Refractory Osteomyelitis
- Radiation Tissue Damage
- Thermal Burns
- Exceptional Blood Loss Anaemia
- Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen in Intracranial Abscess
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