Corporate Profile
National Baromedical Services (NBS) enjoys over two decades of hyperbaric management, administrative, contracting, and related consulting experience. Its principal has 40 years of experience in all phases of undersea and hyperbaric administration, education, medicine, research, and technology. NBS clients cross the continuum of the health care delivery system, and include health insurance organizations, diving education and safety associations. NBS served as a principal informational resource for a summary of the scientific literature supporting hyperbaric medicine for both the HHS Office of Inspector General Report on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Technology Assessment Committee Report on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. NBS afforded this support via its electronic hyperbaric library database. With over 6,000 articles representing every significant basic science and clinical hyperbaric publication over the past two centuries, the NBS literature database is the world’s largest such resource. It forms the backbone of the company's educational and marketing initiatives.
NBS is recognized as a leading international provider of hyperbaric medicine training. Some 400-500 physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, undergo Primary and Advanced training at our headquarters facility each year (University of South Carolina School of Medicine/Palmetto Health Richland Hospital). Two undersea and hyperbaric medicine fellowship positions compliment the NBS educational mission. NBS also hosts an annual hyperbaric medicine symposium, featuring internationally recognized basic scientists and clinical practitioners.
NBS has a long-standing reputation as an organization of high ethical standards, and committed patient advocacy. NBS is equally committed to the appropriate application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Our operating model is emulated by a majority of the hyperbaric programs that practice within North America. All of the NBS hyperbaric centers become accredited by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, and quickly evolve into regional centers of medical excellence. NBS has pioneered an evidence-based approach to hyperbaric medicine. These therapeutic algorithms represent best practice standards for many hyperbaric centers.
NBS founded, and supports, The Baromedical Research Foundation (www.baromedicalresearch.org). This tax-exempt non-profit organization has, through its basic science laboratory at the USC School of Medicine Department of Surgery, studied several key aspects of hyperbaric patient safety. It has further served to elucidate hyperbaric medicine’s multifactorial mechanistic basis. In 2000, the Foundation developed and introduced a controlled, randomized and blinded, clinical trial. This multi-center and internationally enrolled project, involving six countries, is the largest such undertaking in the hyperbaric medicine field. The first results were published in 2003.
In 2005 NBS introduced MedEdOnline (www.mededonline.org). This unique information and education website includes video-streaming and continuing education related to undersea medicine, hyperbaric medicine and wound care.
Additional NBS services include preceptorships with experienced clinical employees for newly introduced centers and those experiencing unanticipated staffing shortfalls. NBS also provides on-site program consultation and pre-accreditation quality assurance site surveys.
NBS is privately owned by its president and founder. There are no venture capitalist, stock market driven, or other fiscally driven interests. Such interests runs counter to our guiding principles of high ethical standards, patient advocacy, cost-containment, and evidence-based medicine. The NBS team are experienced clinical and administrative specialists managing the business of health care. NBS standards are high. There is no compromise in terms of staff quality, equipment provisions, and commitment to ongoing medical education and safety training.