Parents in a 5-year-old killed in a hyperbaric fire last month in Michigan “completely destroyed” their “no parent need to go through,” their lawyer said Friday.
James Harrington, the management of the fieger law of Southergifield, Michigan, said Thomas Cooper’s parents of Apnea and Attecativive Aptraine Awnea at the Oxecate Setraine of the Owrower Suburb in Troy says this treatment Over 100 conditionssuch as Autism, Alzheimer’s, Dyslexia and cancer. The food and drug administration does not recognize hyperbaric oxygen therapy for conditions.
Thomas was killed on January 31 of an event described by Troy Police officials and fire fire officers as a burning blast inside. Speak the first time about the case on Friday, Harrington said Thomas’ Mom, Annie Cooper, hurried to the attempt to save his son.
“He had significant burns in his arms, and that was done by a try to try to try to get his son from burning flames,” he said to NBC News. “He was trying and trying to release him, and did not succeed.”
“He has visible burns,” he added. “But the real problem for him can be emotional trauma.”
The Oxford Center, with two locations in Michigan, did not immediately return to many requests for comment Friday about Thomas’s death. After the incident, it released a statement of other media outlets That is reading, “the safety and welfare of the children we serve is the most important thing. There is nothing like this happened to our more than 15 years of providing this type of therapy. We do not know why or how it happened and joined all investigations that needed today to happen. “
The location of this Troy is temporarily closed as the authorities conduct an investigation of fatal fire. A spokesman for said Troy Police Friday with no update to share investigation. No charge.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, involving the delivery of 100% oxygen in a pressurized, tubelike room, Cleaned by The FDA is treated in a handful of conditions, including pollution of carbon monoxide, some kinds of wounds and burns, and disease decompression in scuba divers. FDA regulates some hyperbaric rooms that meet the agency’s definition of Class II Medical Device, which is “intended for use of disease or other conditions, or to repair, treatment, or avoid, treatment ill. “
In recent years, the spa, wellness centers and other unpredictable hyperbaric oxygen facilities, and the FDA warns some claims it can be. “The FDA does not list sleeping in Apnea and ADHD among conditions that treatment can be treated, even if there are some anecdotal claims that can help these two conditions.
Harrington described Thomas as a sweet child who loved his little brother, and he said that Thomas’s parents were optimistic that he would benefit from the Hyperbaric Oxford Center.
“This is not a sort of saving measure required. Only a mother seeks to help her son in her circumstances and promised in these conditions and this treatment,” Treatment, “They say they can help.” Annie is trying to help her son as any parent – as good parents. “
The family, living in Royal Oak, Michigan, plans to file a case “to make sure it doesn’t hurt again,” Harrington said.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy acts by suffering with 100% pure oxygen because the air pressure within the hyperbar of the patient’s hyperbar in the patient’s oxygen. The air in the room, by comparison, only 21% oxygen.
Oxygen should be administered to people who are well trained in using equipment, as Tom Workeman, the former director of quality medical facilities with hyperbaric facilities.
He said his group has long been pushing for the most likely to handle any facility that makes hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
“It is emphasized by the welfare community. They say, ‘These are not medical rooms, we use them for good, and welfare is not regulated by FDA,’ he said.” “
In an email at News News, the FDA says other agencies, such as Medicare & Medicaid Centers & State Medical Mictension Agencies, regulating medical practice. The centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the joint commission did not immediately comment on Friday, nor the Michigan department of licensing and regulatory activities.
“Ingon usa ka kinatibuk-an nga butang, kung nahibal-an sa FDA ang usa ka insidente nga naglambigit sa usa ka kapakyasan sa aparato o sa FDA nagsunod sa kasayuran aron matino ang angay nga mga lakang, lakip ang angay nga mga lakang, lakip Appropriate next steps, including appropriate next steps or not limited to a calic device or a communication of salvation, “it says.
FDA warns On its website That hyperbaric oxygen therapist devices “is not proven to recover cancer, lyme disease, autism or patients to check their health care providers to find out when It’s right for them.
The FDA also recommends to go to a facility checked and relied on Undersea & Hyperbrabic Medical Society, which There is a map of accredited facilities on its website. The Oxford Center is not listed between accredited facilities.
Troy’s fire department said after Thomas’s death that while the presence of many oxygen in a pressurized environment can support that this type of incident is unusual. “
But this is not no initial: In 2009, a 4-year-old and his grandmother died After a fire contained in a hyperbaric room with an unacceptable Florida clinic in which the child receives treatment for cerebral palsy. Two staff were charged In their death, one of them is a doctor who does not serve in prison time but Lost his medicine license. The state of legal case against other employees, the director of the center’s safety, is not clear.
Harrington explained that the case of coopers was watching any said failures contributed to his death.
“If the operator’s error or machine malfunction, it is not necessarily, to happen in any circumstances,” he said.
