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Volume LI           November 27, 2000       12:00 noon
                            Cellar at Union Square
ELECTION OF OFFICERS____________________________________________________
Nominating Committee announced the following candidates:
1st Vice President - Uwe Zitzow, 2nd Vice President - Steve McGuire, 
Treasurer - Mike Ingram, and Secretary - Brad Baucom.  Other nominations will 
be accepted on November 13.  Please make sure the nominated person if elected 
is willing to serve.  
Election will take place on November 27, during our regular meeting, before 
the scheduled presentation.

THIS WEEK__________________________________________________________________
Ray Childers, will present CMA's current activities and issues.  Chattanooga 
Manufacturing Association has functioned as an advocate for local 
manufacturing companies since 1902.  CMA collects data, provide training, and 
set up network opportunities for members.

LAST WEEK___________________________________________________________________
Cheryl Vilullo, Nurse Manager of Erlanger's Wound Center's explained the use 
of the Hyperbaric Unit.  Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a medical treatment 
that is used to treat a limited but diverseseries of illnesses. It may be the 
primary treatment for some disorders, but it is often used as part of a 
combined program of medical and surgical procedures. In order to provide 
patients with hyperbaric therapy, a pressurized chamber is necessary. 
Erlanger has three single patient chambers.  The patient is placed within the 
chamber; which is then compressed to a level ordered by the consulting 
hyperbaric physician, using pure oxygen.  Oxygen, when provided to a patient 
in a hyperbaric chamber, greatly increases the amount of oxygen that can be 
delivered to body tissues by the blood. All of the benefits provided by 
hyperbaric oxygen therapy are the result of this extra oxygen being carried 
in the bloodstream.  Depending upon the reason for the patient's referral to 
the Hyperbaric Medicine Service, hyperbaric oxygen will be used to provideone 
or more of the following effects:
· Increased oxygen delivery to the injured tissue 
· Greater blood vessel formation 
· Advanced wound healing 
· Improved infection control 
· Preservation of damaged tissues 
· Elimination of toxic substances 
· Reduced effects from toxic substances 
· Reduction or elimination of vascular obstruction by gas bubbles. 
Physicians have conducted studies in other treatments utilizing the 
hyperbaric unit, but the limitations seem to lie with the insurance coverage. 
 
For more information, see www.erlanger.org/hbo/



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