Epifanova N.M.; Romasenko M.V.
Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Dept. Psychosomatic Disorders, Moscow
European Psychiatry, Volume 12, Supplement 2, 1997 , pp. 208s-208s(1)
Summary:
Exposure to hyperbaric oxygenation had a favorable effect on the patient's status during sessions and persisted for some time after them. Patients with different premorbid symptoms and initial status experienced tranquilizing or bioenergizing effects of hyperbaric oxygen. A comparative clinical and psychopathological examination of patients in both groups showed accelerated reduction of psychoneurologic and somatovegetative disorders, this bringing about an approximately two-fold decrease of treatment duration and preventing the development of complications. The parameters of central hemodynamics normalized and myocardial status improved, which allowed to prevent the development of cardiovascular decompensation. Such a favorable time course of events appears to be due to the antihypoxic detoxifying and bioenergetic effects of hyperbaric oxygen.
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Breathing high levels of oxygen under hyperbaric conditions causes greater uptake of oxygen by the bodily fluids and so more can reach areas where the circulation is diminished or blocked and therefore improve recovery. The chamber can actually be decompressed at any time and whilst breathing oxygen, you cannot suffer decompression sickness ('the bends'). The sessions last just over an hour and are usually repeated daily five days a week.
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