Oxygen therapy.

Oxygen therapy is one of the most effective treatments for acute respiratory failure of any etiology. Oxygen therapy in itself cannot serve as a tool or method for improving bronchial patency or ventilation of the lungs, but in conditions of impaired patency of the lungs (impaired ventilation of the lungs) in conditions such as acute respiratory failure or acute pulmonary heart failure, oxygen therapy makes it possible to transport through the lungs into the blood oxygen and thereby remove the sick person from the terminal state.

The meaning of oxygen therapy is that during artificial respiration with air specially saturated with oxygen (air enriched with oxygen), hypoxemia, which develops with pulmonary insufficiency, is reduced or completely eliminated. The state of hypoxemia is associated with a decrease in the amount of oxygen in the blood due to the impossibility of its full transportation through the lungs.

To deliver oxygen to the blood and increase the concentration of oxygen in the blood plasma, an apparatus method of hyperbaric oxygen therapy is required, which allows you to transport into the blood flowing from the lungs the required oxygen concentration to maintain the proportion between the oxygen concentration increased in the respiratory mixture to enrich the blood plasma and the level of oxygen partial pressure in the alveoli of the lungs. It is oxygen therapy, carried out with the help of sophisticated equipment, that allows the respiratory mixture to be enriched with more than 50% oxygen content (an increase from 50 to 70% of the oxygen concentration) and not to disturb the very unstable proportions between the oxygen concentration in the blood plasma and the partial pressure of oxygen in the alveoli, in Otherwise, uncontrolled oxygen therapy with high oxygen concentrations can disturb the proportional balance and lead to the effect of damage to the alveoli and, accordingly, damage to the lungs.

Oxygen therapy refers to the methods of intensive medical care and is carried out as part of resuscitation care for patients with severe pulmonary conduction disorders, for example, with pulmonary edema, respiratory center disorders or other pathological conditions when the transport of oxygen through the lungs to the blood is disturbed.

Oxygen therapy is carried out by introducing a nasal catheter (cannula) to the patient, or using different types of respirators (breathing masks), in severe cases, a thoracic catheter is inserted.