Instructor See. Ecem BAYKAL stated that oxygen meets most of the energy that human cells need to carry out their vital processes and that the use of oxygen can determine the result in the treatment of many diseases.
Making statements about hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Baykal continued his words as follows:
The air we breathe contains 21% oxygen, 79% nitrogen and trace gases. Oxygen enters our body through respiration, and after reaching the membrane between the air sacs and capillaries in the lungs, it comes into contact with the blood. While a small portion of the oxygen dissolves in the blood, a large portion is transported by binding to the protein molecule hemoglobin.
The amount of oxygen in the human body is between narrow fixed values, thanks to the mechanisms of the circulatory and respiratory systems. If the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues decreases, this leads to a condition called hypoxia (oxygen deficiency). Hypoxia can occur as a result of environmental factors that disrupt the respiratory process and metabolic diseases that prevent oxygen transport to the blood. Prolonged hypoxia has serious consequences. If the body or tissues are exposed to long-term hypoxia, pure oxygen therapy can be applied to the patient 2-3 times the atmospheric pressure at sea level. The scientific effectiveness of this method, called hyperbaric oxygen therapy, has been proven by many studies.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is applied in the hyperbaric chamber where the oxygen pressure is higher than the atmospheric pressure. After the room door is closed, the pressure level is increased by increasing the air pressure in the room with the help of compressors. Then, the patients in the room are given oxygen through appropriate masks. Hypoxic tissues can be oxygenated by the application of oxygen respiration in addition to the increase in pressure in the hyperbaric chamber. With this application, while no significant change is observed in the amount of oxygen binding to hemoglobin, the amount of directly dissolved oxygen in the plasma increases. It has been shown by research that the amount of oxygen in the clean blood increases up to 20 times with this treatment.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, together with other treatments, has extremely beneficial effects in the treatment of many diseases. Sudden vision loss, sudden hearing loss, crush/fracture syndromes, arterial insufficiency, nerve diseases, diabetic foot wound, thermal burns, radiation necrosis, carbon monoxide poisoning, excessive blood loss, delayed wound healing, decompression sickness, compartment syndrome, orthopedics and vascular Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used before and after surgery. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides healing by accelerating slowed metabolic processes.
