What Researchers Did
Clinicians reported a case of a patient with prolonged consciousness disorder from hypoglycaemic encephalopathy caused by an insulin-secreting pancreatic tumour, who remained unresponsive for 90 days before beginning HBOT.
What They Found
The patient showed recovery of consciousness temporally associated with initiation of HBOT, despite the disorder persisting far longer than the previously reported maximum recovery time of 14 days. All standard treatments including blood sugar correction had been attempted without improvement prior to HBOT.
Canadian Relevance
No direct Canadian connection identified.
Study Limitations
This is a single case report; spontaneous recovery cannot be fully ruled out, and temporal association with HBOT does not prove causation.