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Doctor uses hyperbaric oxygen chambers at Camarillo hospital

Jimmy Fogata believes that oxygen saved his right foot.

The Santa Paula police sergeant suffered a fracture that became infected. A bright red wound reached from one side of his foot to the other. Doctors talked about amputation. Fogata thought that his 20-year career might be over.

"I don't think you can be a cop with a missing leg," he said.

He was slid into a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo, the same device used to treat deep-sea divers with decompression sickness. A transparent tube was pressurized to a level equivalent to diving 44 feet underwater. It was filled with 100 percent oxygen, or about five times the natural environment.

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