5-year-old Michigan boy killed in Hyperbarkamamammer Explosion

(CBS DETROIT) “A 5-year-old Michigan boy was killed on Friday morning when a hyperbarian chamber he was in exploding,” officials said.

Police and firefighters responded to the Oxford Medical Center in Troy around 10 p.m. 8 Friday for a report on a hyperbarian chamber explosion. When emergencies arrived at the facility, they found the boy from Royal Oak, dead inside the chamber.

The boy’s mother, who was near the chamber when it exploded, suffered damage to her arms. No one else was injured in the explosion.

Police did not say what the child was treated for.

Police and fire officials have not decided the cause of the explosion. Crews could contain the fire in space.

A hyperbar chamber is a closed space that delivers pure oxygen to the body with higher than normal air pressure, according to the Mayo Clinic. During the oxygen treatment in the chamber, the air pressure increases 2 to 3 times higher than normal air pressure.

Hyperbaric chambers can be used for life -saving, limb -saving and tissue -saving treatments as well as for other treatments, such as low red blood cells caused by blood loss and sudden hearing loss from an unknown cause.

Because a hyperbarian chamber contains such a large amount of oxygen in a pressure press, it can be extremely combustible.

Social workers with the Oakland Community Health Network work with the first respondents and medical staff responding to stage.

Oxford Center, which offers various integrative medical therapies, issued the following statement of the explosion:

“This is an exceptionally difficult day for all of us. As a law enforcement authorities have shared at our location in Troy, Michigan this morning, a fire started inside a hyperbar oxygen chamber. The child who was treated in the fact that the chamber did not survive and did not survive the child’s Mother was wounded.

A study is ongoing.

“There will be more jurisdictions and departments throughout the state that will be part of this investigation,” said Troy Fire Department Lt. Keith Young.

The medical facility is closed so far.