Accessibility
PrintToronto General Hospital operates a large hyperbaric multiplace chamber and two hyperbaric monoplace chambers. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the medical use of 100 per cent oxygen at between two and five times normal pressure.
Originally developed to treat victims of diving accidents, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is effective in a number of other applications:
- Toxicology Problems -carbon monoxide poisoning/smoke inhalation/cerebral arterial gas embolism
- Ears, nose, throat, orthopedic and plastic surgery problems - including crush injury, soft tissue and bony radiation injury, problem wounds, grafts
- Infectious Disease - including necrotizing infection, gas gangrene and refractory osteomyelitis (infection in the bone)
Contact Us
Toronto General Hospital
Clinical Services Building,
Ground Floor,
Rm 405
200 Elizabeth St.
Toronto, ON
M5G 2C4
Telephone: (416) 340-4131
Fax: (416) 340-4481
Acting Medical Director: Wilf DeMajo, MD
Telephone: (416) 340-3155 (locating)
Practice Leader: Gavin Wort CD, CHT.
Telephone: (416) 340-4132
Email: Gavin.Wort@uhn.on.ca
Site Leader: Ray Janisse, RRT, CHT.
Telephone: (416) 340-4132
Email: Ray.Janisse@uhn.on.ca
Manager Allied Health : Sandra Grgas, RRT
Telephone: (416) 340-4800 ext.6318
Email: sandra.grgas@uhn.on.ca
Emergency Contact
We are available 24 hours a day. During regular working hours, staff can be reached through the daytime number. Staff are also on call and available during off hours. They can be reached by calling the Hospital's LOCATING operator at (416) 340-3155.
