Emergency Therapies

Hyperbaric Medicine and Emergency Therapy

Emergency therapy is available 24 hours a day, year round. A responsive on-call system coordinates communication between the division of hyperbaric medicine and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's emergency response teams, including PennSTAR. PennSTAR is Penn's helicopter emergency transport, providing urgent care access across five states (PA, DE, MD, NJ and NY).

Penn Medicine provides emergency care for:

• Decompression sickness ("The Bends")
• Gas embolism (bubbles in the bloodstream)
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Cyanide poisoning
• Gas gangrene
• Necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating bacterial infection)
• Crush injuries