5-year-old Michigan boy killed in hyperbaric chamber explosion

(CBS DETROIT) — A 5-year-old Michigan boy was killed Friday morning when a hyperbaric chamber he was inside exploded, officers mentioned. 

Police and firefighters responded to The Oxford Medical Middle in Troy round 8 a.m. Friday for a report of a hyperbaric chamber explosion. When emergency responders arrived on the facility, they discovered the boy, from Royal Oak, useless contained in the chamber. 

The boy’s mom, who was close to the chamber when it exploded, suffered accidents to her arms. Nobody else was injured within the explosion. 

Police didn’t say what the kid was being handled for. 

Police and fireplace officers haven’t decided the reason for the explosion. Crews have been capable of comprise the fireplace within the room.

A hyperbaric chamber is an enclosed house that delivers pure oxygen to the physique with increased than regular air stress, in keeping with the Mayo Clinic. In the course of the oxygen remedy within the chamber, air stress is elevated 2 to three occasions increased than regular air stress.

Hyperbaric chambers can be utilized for life-saving, limb-saving, and tissue-saving therapies, in addition to for different therapies, corresponding to low crimson blood cell counts attributable to blood loss and sudden listening to loss from an unknown trigger. 

As a result of a hyperbaric chamber incorporates such a excessive quantity of oxygen in a pressurized house, it may be extraordinarily flamable. 

Social staff with the Oakland Neighborhood Well being Community are working with first responders and medical workers who responded to the scene. 

An investigation is ongoing. 

The medical facility, which presents numerous integrative medical therapies, is closed till additional discover.