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Family whose 5-year-old was killed in a hyperbaric chamber is 'absolutely devastated,' attorney says
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Family whose 5-year-old was killed in a hyperbaric chamber is ‘absolutely devastated,’ attorney says
Thomas Cooper’s parents hoped the oxygen therapy he was receiving at a facility in Troy, Michigan, would help his sleep apnea and ADHD, according to their lawyer.
Feb. 14, 2025, 7:54 PM EST / Updated Feb. 14, 2025, 10:37 PM EST
By Elizabeth Chuck
The parents of a 5-year-old who was killed in a hyperbaric chamber fire last month in Michigan are “absolutely devastated” over their son’s death and have experienced something that “no parent should ever, ever have to go through,” their attorney said Friday.
James Harrington, managing partner of Fieger Law in Southfield, Michigan, said Thomas Cooper’s parents had taken him to receive multiple sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for sleep apnea and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder at the Oxford Center, an alternative medicine facility in the Detroit suburb of Troy that says it treats over 100 conditions, such as autism, Alzheimer’s, dyslexia and cancer. The Food and Drug Administration does not recognize hyperbaric oxygen therapy for those conditions.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which involves the delivery of 100% oxygen in a pressurized, tubelike chamber, is cleared by the FDA to treat a handful of conditions, including carbon monoxide poisoning, certain types of wounds and burns, and decompression sickness in scuba divers. The FDA regulates certain hyperbaric chambers that meet the agency’s definition of Class II medical devices, which are “intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.”
In recent years, spas, wellness centers and other unaccredited facilities have started promoting hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a treatment for a variety of health problems, and the FDA warns “some claims of what it can do are unproven.” The FDA does not list sleep apnea and ADHD among the conditions the therapy can treat, though there are some anecdotal claims it may help with both conditions.
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Family whose 5-year-old was killed in a hyperbaric chamber is ‘absolutely devastated,’ attorney says
Thomas Cooper’s parents hoped the oxygen therapy he was receiving at a facility in Troy, Michigan, would help his sleep apnea and ADHD, according to their lawyer.
Feb. 14, 2025, 7:54 PM EST / Updated Feb. 14, 2025, 10:37 PM EST
By Elizabeth Chuck
The parents of a 5-year-old who was killed in a hyperbaric chamber fire last month in Michigan are “absolutely devastated” over their son’s death and have experienced something that “no parent should ever, ever have to go through,” their attorney said Friday.
James Harrington, managing partner of Fieger Law in Southfield, Michigan, said Thomas Cooper’s parents had taken him to receive multiple sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for sleep apnea and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder at the Oxford Center, an alternative medicine facility in the Detroit suburb of Troy that says it treats over 100 conditions, such as autism, Alzheimer’s, dyslexia and cancer. The Food and Drug Administration does not recognize hyperbaric oxygen therapy for those conditions.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which involves the delivery of 100% oxygen in a pressurized, tubelike chamber, is cleared by the FDA to treat a handful of conditions, including carbon monoxide poisoning, certain types of wounds and burns, and decompression sickness in scuba divers. The FDA regulates certain hyperbaric chambers that meet the agency’s definition of Class II medical devices, which are “intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.”
In recent years, spas, wellness centers and other unaccredited facilities have started promoting hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a treatment for a variety of health problems, and the FDA warns “some claims of what it can do are unproven.” The FDA does not list sleep apnea and ADHD among the conditions the therapy can treat, though there are some anecdotal claims it may help with both conditions.
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