Jay Leno treated inside hyperbaric chamber after suffering third-degree burns
Jay Leno has been treated in a hyperbaric chamber and received skin grafts from donors after he suffered third-degree burns in a freak accident while working on a vintage car.
The 72-year-old actor allowed Inside Edition to film him lying inside the medical device in a blue hospital gown, with his left arm and right hand covered in bandages.
Dr. Peter Grossman, Leno’s physician, explained the importance of the hyperbaric chamber.
“It helps decrease swelling, it helps increase blood flow with good oxygenation and it helps decrease bacteria,” Grossman told Inside Edition.
The former “Tonight Show” host also suffered burns on his face and chest, according to the program.
“He’s had skin grafts that are not his own, meaning the skin we have from a skin bank or a donor, that’s what we do as a first stage,” Grossman said.
Leno, who was scheduled to undergo another surgical procedure this week, has been walking around, cracking jokes and sharing cookies at the Grossman Burn Center, the doctor said.
The comedian faces a lengthy recovery but Grossman noted that “as I’m getting to know Jay, I don’t think it’s gonna be months. I think he’s the kind of guy who’s just gonna move forward.”
He added that the scars will “definitely be visible for the foreseeable future.
“We hope that in the future they will be minimal .Visible or maybe not at all,” he told Inside Edition.
In a press conference Wednesday, Grossman described Leno’s injuries as “serious,” but that “his condition is good.”
Leno has explained that he had been working on his 115-year-old car when a fuel leak and a simultaneous spark in the 1907 White Steam Car triggered an explosion.
He credited his friend Dave with saving him after he was set on fire, as he was standing nearby and immediately jumped on him to smother the flames.
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