On June 9, 2009, Fauquier Hospital opened a wound center that included two hyperbaric oxygen chambers . Hyperbaric oxygen, also known as HBO, has a long and close-knit history with ENT. What hyperbaric oxygen treatment does, in a nutshell, is provide higher concentrations of oxygen to the bloodstream which allows for faster healing of chronic wounds as well as treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning and "the bends" when SCUBA diving. The higher concentrations of oxygen is achieved…