Medicine:Pneumotherapy

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Short description: Medical use of compressed or rarefied gases

Pneumotherapy is the medical use of compressed or rarefied gases, and was at one time used to treat people suffering from pneumothorax (lung collapse).[1]

References

  1. Brown, Cabot (1953). "The Effects of Rapid Changes of Altitude on Patients Undergoing Pneumotherapy". Chest 23 (2): 175–185. doi:10.1378/chest.23.2.175. PMID 13020959.