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Containerized Hyperbaric Chamber Rental Service

Containerized Hyperbaric Chamber Rental Service

Sep 26, 2023

Containerized Hyperbaric Chamber Rental Service

The benefits of renting containerized hyperbaric chambers: mobility, flexibility, safety, and performance for all your projects!

COMEX offers a containerized hyperbaric chamber rental service among its range of products and services. These equipments offer great versatility, as they can be transported by land, sea, and air. Thanks to our flexible rental solutions, you can benefit from hyperbaric facilities without investing in permanent installations. In addition, we provide you with a medical hotline service available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, guaranteeing you continuous assistance.

The flexibility of the containerized structure:

Due to their containerized design, our hyperbaric chambers offer great flexibility in use. They can be moved quickly and efficiently over long distances, whether on a truck for land-based projects, or using maritime means for sea projects, or by air for special missions. This mobility allows to meet all your needs, regardless of their location.


It is a standalone equipment, with its own air production as well as its therapeutic fluid gases. This autonomy ensures great independence and additional adaptability during the use of the hyperbaric chamber.


For a perfect handling by your teams, we provide training on the use of the equipment. If necessary, we can also dispatch a qualified operator to assist you. Thus, you will benefit from complete and personalized support for optimal use of our hyperbaric chambers, safely and efficiently.
Whether you need a turnkey solution or prefer to manage the operation yourself, our rental service will be able to offer you a formula adapted to your requirements.

Equipment description

Each chamber, with a diameter of 1600 mm or 1500 mm, is equipped with 700 mm diameter chamber access doors supporting a working pressure of 4 bars. These therapeutic hyperbaric chambers allow for the simultaneous treatment of several patients, offering a capacity to accommodate 4 seated patients or 2 lying patients per unit..

They are delivered with their air production and the distribution of therapeutic fluids, according to the needs. The plurality of these equipments guarantees great flexibility and reliability, thus ensuring optimal patient care.

The chamber is composed of:

  • 1 spacious main chamber equipped with breathing stations
  • 1 transfer airlock equipped with a breathing station
  • 1 medication airlock
  • 2 hyperbaric fire extinguishers
  • 1 control console equipped with communication system, pressure gauges, and gas analyzers

The container features:

  • 1 hard plan for stretcher transport of an injured person
  • Therapeutic fluids distribution
  • Air production including the HP/LP compressor, compressed air storage, and distribution network

Therapeutic gas bottles are provided according to needs

The plurality of the equipment guarantees our clients autonomy and great flexibility, ensuring optimal use.

Varied applications of rented containerized hyperbaric chambers in various environments

Contribution to the Grand Paris tunnel construction site

Our containerized hyperbaric chambers were used in the context of the Grand Paris project, a construction site involving many tunnel boring machines.
In this context, the projectable chambers made it possible to bring an essential safety element to the hyperbaric operations as close as possible to the tunnel excavation sites.

Use in marine environments

These chambers can also be adapted for specific missions in marine environments. They serve as emergency recompression chambers. Simple, safe, and efficient to use, the container and its chamber can be easily embarked and autonomous, guaranteeing divers safety right at their diving site.

Continuity of medical care

In periods of maintenance or temporary interruption of a hospital center’s operation, it is essential to guarantee the continuity of medical care. In this context, our containerized chambers serve as a reliable and efficient solution.
They can be delivered according to needs, either with their air production and the distribution of therapeutic fluids, or connected to the facility’s network. They are equipped to accommodate up to four seated patients or two lying patients and have a range of accessories for various therapeutic needs, thus ensuring appropriate care for various situations.

A 24/7 medical hotline service

COMEX offers its clients, in addition to the rental of its chambers, a hyperbaric medical advisory service available 24/7. Conducted by doctors specialized in hyperbaric medicine, this remote service helps your teams to quickly undertake the right courses of action.
These doctors are perfectly familiar with, and have validated, our chambers. They conduct training on emergency handling in chambers before your missions. Finally, their hotline can be contacted at any time, allowing you to make the right decisions.

Comex partner of hyperbaric medicine

Comex partner of hyperbaric medicine

Nov 14, 2018

Comex designs, manufactures and integrates hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers for hyperbaric medicine for more than 40 years. She accompanies her clients in an ongoing process for the development of their facilities

Our hyperbaric oxygen therapy facilities are present in a large number of public and private medical units around the world.

Hyperbaric medicine today

 

Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), involves administering oxygen to a patient at a pressure above atmospheric pressure.

 

Treatments of different pathologies

 

This medicine allows the treatment of many urgent or chronic pathologies.
The treated patients are installed in a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber and are brought to an air pressure equivalent to 1.5 bar (2.5 ATA).
Each patient will be administered pure oxygen following a protocol predefined by the Hyperbaric doctor.
All the following pathologies can be treated: (Non-exhaustive list)

. Decompression sickness (diving accident)
. Carbon monoxide poisoning
. Sudden deafness
. Gas embolism
. Necrotizing soft tissue infection
. Chronic refractory osteomyelitis
. Extended burns
. Radiation-induced lesions
. Ulcers or ischemic gangrenes
. Etc…

 

Therapeutic effects of hyperbaric medicine

HBO restores sufficient oxygen pressures in ischemic tissue, limits edema, protects against reperfusion aggression and facilitates healing
It increases the bactericidal power of polynuclear, potentiates certain antibiotics and acts directly on bacteria. The increase in pressure also makes it possible to fragment the intravascular gas sleeves in case of arterial gas embolism. This therapy increases the oxygen supply to damaged tissue and speeds up the healing process.

 

New leads for hyperbaric medicine

L’hyperbaric oxygen therapy promises, through scientific studies, a great potential to improve the condition of people suffering from stroke (Cerebral vascular accident) by waking up the brain with oxygen. It is also studied for Alzheimer’s disease and in the test phase in fibromyalgia.

The Hyperbaric Center at Sainte Marguerite Hospital in Marseille

Privileged partner for many years the hyperbaric medicine service of AP-HM and Comex have long been used to working together. This collaboration, reinforced by geographical proximity, makes it possible to form a high-quality medical-technical platform for biomedical research and development in the field of extreme environments. In 2004, the AP-HM set up a hyperbaric center at the Sainte Marguerite de Marseille hospital. Designed and installed by our company, we also provide maintenance. The hyperbaric center is currently headed by Dr. Mathieu COULANGE, Head of the Department of Hyperbaric, Underwater and Marine Medicine.  

The Hyperbaric Center has three rooms multiplaces :

1) A “Chronic” room for chronic outpatient treatment. (8 seats).

2) A room “REA” which is an emergency room of resuscitation (2 elongated places). It also makes it possible to carry out, among other things, vascular explorations in pressure such as transcutaneous pressure and Doppler laser flow..

3) A “HYPO / HYPER” chamber that allows hyperbaric and hypobaric functioning.

– Chronic hyperbaric treatments (2 elongated places or 3 seated places).

– Pathophysiological studies in hypobaria.

The structure also includes consultation rooms that allow medical visits of no contraindication to recreational diving and medical aptitude for interventions in hyperbaric environments for professionals.

To know: The center of hyperbaric medicine of the APHM is currently the only one in France to have a hypobaric chamber which allows, among other things, to carry out studies at flight crews of aeronautics.

More generally, the APHM wants to be a center of excellence in research and teaching in the field of medicine applied to extreme environments. This is true for the maritime domain but also for the aeronautical field.

A constant modernization of the hyperbaric center

 

After the replacement of the computer system by the last generation, the COMEX teams have again intervened to modernize the hyperbaric center in 2017.

Indeed, the teams of our Services Department have installed on the 3 chambers of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a new adapted lighting system much more efficient and economical (LED technology) which has significantly improved the comfort of patients and staff caregiver.

« Since our partnership with Comex, we have taken the option of modernizing our Hyperbaric and Hypobaric chamber. In 2017 we replaced our less efficient halogen lighting with LEDs, which is much more pleasant with the possibility to switch from a white light to a blue light that has the property to soothe patients and allow them to rest which is very pleasant for them during daily oxygen therapy sessions. It is also a comfort for the nursing staff during the care »

Roland Blanc

Biomedical Technical Manager, Hyperbaric Center, CHU Sainte Margueritte (AP-HM)

Comex becomes a biomedical research center

Comex becomes a biomedical research center

Sep 6, 2018

A recognized specialist in hyperbaric and hypobaric engineering, COMEX has been accredited as a biomedical research center by the French Regional Health Agency (ARS) since 2018. This accreditation, regularly renewed, authorizes COMEX to conduct research involving healthy human volunteers, within a strict regulatory, ethical, and safety framework compliant with French and European regulations.

Today, it represents a strategic asset for aerospace, aeronautical, and defense R&D partners, addressing human physiological challenges related to pressure variation, decompression, altitude, and hypoxic exposure.

A biomedical research center dedicated to applied physiological research

Biomedical research conducted at COMEX aims to advance knowledge of human physiological responses in extreme environments, with a particular focus on:

  • ✓ Hypobaric exposure and altitude,
  • ✓ Rapid pressure variations and decompression,
  • ✓ Hypoxic phenomena,
  • ✓ Cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological adaptation.

All studies are conducted with healthy volunteers aged 18 to 65, exclusively within a non-therapeutic, physiological research framework.

A robust regulatory and medical framework ensuring scientific reliability

All biomedical research activities are conducted in accordance with strict legal and ethical requirements, ensuring participant safety and data reliability:

  • ✓ Validation of research protocols by competent authorities (ANSM, CPP),
  • ✓ Continuous oversight by independent committees,
  • ✓ Implementation of documented, auditable procedures.

Medical support is provided by the Institute of Physiology and Medicine in the Maritime Environment and Extreme Environments (PHYMAREX), in close collaboration with Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM).

Studies are carried out under the supervision of Dr. Mathieu Coulange, MD, an emergency physician specialized in hyperbaric, maritime, and aeronautical medicine, and Head of the Hyperbaric, Underwater, and Maritime Medicine Department at Sainte-Marguerite University Hospital.

Unique facilities for hypobaric and hyperbaric research.

The biomedical research center accreditation covers several COMEX facilities, including the Hyperbaric Test Center, Hypobaric Test Center and testing bassin, specifically designed to support aerospace R&D programs:

 

  • ✓ Altitude (hypobaric) simulator,
  • ✓ Dive (hyperbaric) simulator,
  • ✓ Dedicated medical consultation room,
  • ✓ Real-time audio and video monitoring systems,
  • ✓ Immediate access to medical oxygen therapy,
  • ✓ Automated external defibrillator (AED) and emergency cart,
  • ✓ Resuscitation equipment in close proximity,
  • ✓ Continuous physiological monitoring of volunteers.

These facilities enable the reproduction of realistic operational scenarios in fully controlled and instrumented environments.

simulateur d'altitude
simulateur d'altitude
test en chambre hypoxique comex
phymarex au centre hyperbare comex

From ARS accreditation to international aerospace partnerships (2018–2025)

Since obtaining ARS accreditation in 2018, COMEX’s biomedical research center has progressively expanded its scientific and industrial collaborations.

By 2025, this framework supported research partnerships with major aerospace stakeholders, including NASA, focusing on human physiology in hypobaric environments, decompression exposure, and hypoxia risk management.

These collaborations are grounded in:

 

  • ✓ Validated research protocols involving healthy subjects,
  • ✓Advanced control of pressure and decompression environments,
  • ✓ Integrated expertise in engineering, medicine, and human factors.
bassin plateforme essais tests cinematrographique
bassin plateforme essais tests cinematrographique
bassin plateforme essais tests cinematrographique
rescapé du bataclan lors de leur venu a la comex

Physiological research supporting hypoxia risk training in aeronautics

Building on its biomedical research activities, COMEX has also developed specialized training programs addressing hypoxia risk, dedicated to civil aviation, business aviation, and private aviation operators.

These programs rely on:

  • ✓ Physiological data generated through biomedical research,
  • ✓ Hypobaric simulation replicating realistic altitude scenarios,
  • ✓ A human factors–oriented approach focused on flight safety.

They were notably developed following collaborations with EPNER (French Test Pilot School – École du Personnel Navigant d’Essais et de Réception), a national reference in flight testing and advanced aeronautical training.

A strategic R&D partner for the aerospace industry

Through its biomedical research center, COMEX positions itself as a trusted R&D partner for aerospace stakeholders seeking to:

These programs rely on:

  • ✓ Conduct human physiological research under controlled pressure and decompression conditions,
  • ✓ Assess systems, procedures, or equipment related to altitude and hypoxia,
  • ✓ Integrate human factors early in system design and qualification phases,on flight safety.
  • ✓ Rely on a robust, recognized regulatory and medical framework.

“We are pleased with this authorization, which is rarely granted to private companies – usually reserved for hospitals – as it further strengthens the legitimacy of our biomedical research center. However, this is not new for us: back in the 1990s, during our experimental hydrogen dives, we already held such authorization..

Alexandre Oskian

Head of the Engineering & Services departments, COMEX.SA

Deployable compression chamber: COMEX equips the Algerian State

Deployable compression chamber: COMEX equips the Algerian State

Jul 3, 2018

In the framework of an earlier contract with the Algerian General Directorate of Civil Protection, two deployable new-generation compression chambers are now in operation.

In the framework of an earlier contract with the Algerian General Directorate of Civil Protection, two deployable new-generation compression chambers are now in operation.

The contract closed with the training of 10 people from the General Directorate of Civil Protection (DGPC). In November 2017, technical experts of the COMEX Engineering and Services Department trained the user staff for level 1 maintenance (according to the standard NF X 60-010) and in the use of deployable emergency compression chamber CX 1800 320.

The two new-generation two-place re-compression chambers, respectively installed in Algiers and Oran, are ready to deliver hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy treatments for all the Algerian territory. In effect, the model of mobile compression chambers was selected to meet the need of the General Directorate of the Civil Protection to use this decompression system for various operations across the country. The containerized structure offers the advantage of moving the equipment by land (by truck) as well as by sea or air.

Each hyperbaric chamber is composed of a treatment chamber which can accommodate 2 patients sitting and 1 patient lying down, and an equipped airlock with 2 seats. The equipment, in accordance with the European Directive of Pressure Equipment, is equipped with the latest COMEX technologies for control and design: sessions controlled by an automatic system, support with multiple user modes, LED lighting, innovative communication system. On the other hand, the maintenance staff benefits from facilities and coatings that optimize the decontamination.

The end user can also depend on the COMEX Services Department to carry out maintenance on its complex equipment and to provide assistance for its use.
Pioneer since 1961 in hyperbaric systems, COMEX has installed hundreds of installations around the world and reinforces its ties with the Maghreb.

Management team: Alexandra Oppenheim Delauze (CEO) and Alexandre Oskian (Director of Engineering and Services Departments), the various professions involved in the project: Commercial and technical management, mechanical engineers, fluids experts and technical support, design manager, hyperbaric technicians.