NZNO nurses, healthcare assistants and some midwives plan to strike from 9am on Wednesday 30 July to 9am on Thursday 31 July. Patient safety is our priority and our hospitals will remain open. Continue to attend all appointments unless we have contacted you directly to reschedule.
The Christchurch hyperbaric medicine unit treats a range of conditions including decompression sickness, air embolism (gas bubbles in a vein or artery), radiation injury and wounds where oxygen supply has been interrupted.
To contact the hyperbaric medicine unit, call 03 364 0045 (extension 80045)
To contact the diver emergency service, call 0800 4DES 111
We are located near the western lifts at:
Hyperbaric Medicine Unit
Lower Ground Floor
Parkside West
Christchurch Hospital
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy delivers oxygen under pressure to body tissues. It is a treatment used for a limited but diverse range of illnesses. The Christchurch hyperbaric medicine unit treats:
For most people receiving treatment, treatments are given daily from Monday to Friday and can last 2 to 2 and a half hours. Some emergency conditions will only need one or 2 treatments. In most cases of wound healing support, the effects are gradual, and 20 to 50 treatments may be required.
The Christchurch hyperbaric medicine unit provides a 24 hour acute service for everywhere in New Zealand south of Taupō.
You can be referred to this service by your healthcare provider.
