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Treatment for ADHD and sleep apnea are so far out of the realm of the use case for these chambers that there is certainly information being left out by the family here... or maybe that's just being left out of this article.

This is an absolutely terrible piece of "journalism", if you can even call it that. There is absolutely no comment in the article from the clinic, any of the defendants or their lawyers, or even a third party medical expert for contextual reference. The only information is from the family's lawyer and a tiny bit of generic background you can Google in 5 seconds.

EDIT: Yeah, this article is just fucking terrible.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2025/09/15/4-charged-5-year-olds-death-troy-hyperbaric-chamber-explosion-back-in-court/86080293007/

A former employee with a health care center that operated a hyperbaric oxygen therapy program where a 5-year-old boy died in an explosion said she reported concerns with safety practices to the center's owner and safety director months before the child died.

Tiffany Hosey, who worked for nearly four years at the Oxford Center's Brighton location as a research assistant and a hyperbaric technician, testified Monday in Troy's 52-4 District Court that she raised concerns she had about safety to owner Tamela Peterson and safety director Jeffrey Mosteller, but they did not do anything about it.

When Hosey told them she was not comfortable working in the hyperbaric chambers with the safety concerns she had, she was let go, she said.

“My primary concern was we were not putting grounding straps on the patients going inside the hyperbaric chamber,” Hosey said. “This is a wrist strap the patient would wear during treatment. … It’s to reduce the risk of fire induced static electricity.”

Although that still doesn't explain why they were suing the chamber for treatment of these diagnoses in the first place.

Oh... of course.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-deaths-prompt-state-lawmakers-hyperbaric.html

Earlier this year, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited wellness podcaster Gary Brecka at his home, where they hung out in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber before taping an episode of Brecka's show.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has found a support network inside Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again movement, among wellness influencers and anti-aging gurus. Podcasters including Brecka and Joe Rogan have touted the benefits of the chambers, while a hyperbaric chamber manufacturer had a presence at this year's MAHA Spring Gala in Florida.

And HBOT typically isn't a one-and-done treatment. It can cos t$200 or more per treatment session, with dozens of sessions recommended. Thomas Cooper had been on his 36th of 40 treatments for attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and sleep apnea, the Detroit Free Press reported. The FDA has not approved HBOT for either condition.

36 of 40 treatments!? WTF!?