What does hyperbaric oxygen do? Let's listen to the "self introduction" of hyperbaric oxygen.
Many people don't know me, and even many clinical doctors are unfamiliar with me. Now I'm going to unveil the mystery of 'me'!
From the appearance, what is presented to everyone is a huge monster, like a 'submarine'. It is actually a large air pressurized oxygen chamber with two compartments and four doors. The cabin is a closed cylinder, and pure oxygen or purified compressed air is input through pipelines and control systems. Doctors outside the cabin can contact my 'stomach' patients through observation windows and walkie talkies to inquire about their feelings at any time. The oxygen chamber consists of a main cabin and an auxiliary cabin, which are equipped with 16 sofa seats, cold and hot air conditioning, and specialized oxygen inhalation devices. Patients can easily listen to music or read medical knowledge, chat with "immortal qi" under high pressure, and assist clinical departments in preventing, nursing, recovering, and treating diseases.
Next, I will be a "tour guide" and lead everyone to experience the mysterious high-pressure oxygen journey together——
Boosting stage: Now please take off your synthetic clothes (anti-static), put away your lighter, phone, watch, remote key, electric toys, etc. Put on pure cotton clothes and close the cabin door. You can drink green tea or coffee, watch the projection of popular science knowledge, and eliminate loneliness during the journey. When the "oxygen tank submarine" starts to increase pressure and reaches a treatment pressure of 2 atmospheres, it is equivalent to a depth of 10 meters underwater after diving for 20 minutes. During the diving process, the cabin pressure increases, the activity of gas molecules accelerates, and the cabin temperature rises by 3-5 ℃. In summer, you will be cooled by air conditioning. Each person has 2ml of gas in the eardrum chamber, and after pressurization, the volume shrinks and the eardrum is compressed. If the ears feel stuffy, you need to pinch the nose, swallow, yawn, open the Eustachian tube, and adjust the pressure balance inside and outside the eardrum.
Stable pressure stage: The pressure of the "oxygen tank submarine" reaches 2 atmospheres, which is equivalent to no longer "diving" when diving to 10 meters underwater, and staying at 2 atmospheres for 70 minutes. At this point, please wear an oxygen mask and start absorbing pure oxygen (it should be noted that the high-pressure oxygen inhaled by the patient is liquid oxygen from the hospital's oxygen production facility). There is no need to worry about the safety hazards caused by the increase in oxygen concentration in the oxygen chamber, because the entire medium inside the chamber is air, and oxygen enters and exits through a separate oxygen supply pipe. As the pressure increases, the gas in your gastrointestinal tract will be compressed, the diaphragm will move downwards, the lung ventilation will significantly increase, pure oxygen will be absorbed, and breathing will deepen and the frequency will slow down. Due to sufficient blood oxygen concentration, the small arteries supplying the body contract. At this point, the heart begins to 'slack off' and the heart rate slows down. Through this treatment, intracranial pressure, cerebral edema, and heart rate can be reduced. Due to the vasodilation of blood vessels in hypoxic ischemic tissues, such as hypoxia, carbon dioxide accumulation, acidosis, etc., more oxygen can be obtained in the lesion area; With the increase of oxygen concentration, the diffusion radius of oxygen significantly increases, which is beneficial for the establishment of collateral circulation in compression injuries and postoperative wounds, improving blood rheology, reducing platelet aggregation rate and blood viscosity, and improving microcirculation. In addition, bacteria, especially anaerobic bacteria, will abandon helmets and escape under superoxide pressure. Therefore, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a good assistant for gas gangrene and tetanus.
Stress reduction stage: After inhaling pure oxygen for 60 minutes, everyone takes off their oxygen masks and slowly reduces the pressure from two atmospheres, that is, the "oxygen chamber submarine" begins to slowly "float out of the water". Pressure decreases and gas expands, so it is important to maintain normal breathing during this process and not hold your breath; During the decompression process, due to air expansion and heat absorption, the temperature inside the cabin will drop by 2-3 degrees, so it is necessary to keep warm, and the staff will also use air conditioning to keep warm! After 20 minutes, we reached the No.1 atmosphere and successfully completed the mysterious journey of the "Oxygen Cabin Submarine", and can now leave the cabin. Hyperbaric oxygen workers escort patients back to the ward safely based on their condition.
How is it? The trip is over, let's summarize it!
Hyperbaric Oxygen Department: It is an auxiliary department of the clinical department. Hyperbaric oxygen can help shorten the course of clinical ischemic and hypoxic diseases and improve recovery speed.
Hyperbaric oxygen chamber: It is a specialized medical equipment for treating diseases, providing a high-pressure environment to ensure that patients can effectively, comfortably, and safely inhale oxygen in a high-pressure environment.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Medicine: The Development of Diving Medicine!
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy stage: The treatment can be completed through three stages: increasing pressure, stabilizing pressure, and decreasing pressure.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: It is a method of treating ischemic and hypoxic diseases by placing patients in an environment above one atmosphere and breathing pure oxygen.
Mechanism of hyperbaric oxygen therapy: Under high pressure, due to the principle of physical pressure, oxygen can quickly dissolve into the human blood, providing oxygen to deep hypoxic tissues. Under high pressure, oxygen can directly reach the lesion, thereby improving the symptoms of hypoxia and achieving the goal of treatment.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a high-tech physical therapy, not a myth. Hyperbaric oxygen assisted therapy has involved multiple disciplines such as emergency medicine, internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology, dermatology, pediatrics, etc. Combination therapy can treat hundreds of ischemic and hypoxic diseases.
You have benefited greatly from this trip.