Increase the rate of oxygenation

You must equip yourself with a hood to enter the operating room. As in a submarine, the pressure in the chamber increases gradually with the rhythm of the dive. At the same time, the operator pumps oxygen into the patient’s hood. It proceeds in steps of one meter per minute to avoid any accident.

The session lasts one hour. For the study leader, this process is the best way to increase the rate of oxygenation in the blood. “The oxygen will dissolve and concentrate in the blood. The oxygen concentration will be 15 times higher than the concentration at atmospheric pressure, there is an oxygenation effect which is major.”

Hyperbaric chamber: a double advantage

“We know that covid at the pulmonary level will create a very significant inflammation which will alter the exchanges between the lungs and the blood. We know that hyperbaric oxygen has anti-inflammatory properties precisely and then the fact of re-oxygenating will make it possible to limit the replication of the virus “, specifies the operator.

But for this, hyperbaric oxygen must be administered from the first days of the disease. This is the case with Michèle. A month ago, affected by the Covid, she was urgently hospitalized and then included in the study. “We have the air coming in front of us, it’s oxygen we can feel it, we breathe well. I felt better in the box that’s for sure when I was in bed with the little thing in my nose, the glasses, I don’t know what it’s called. And I would have stayed half a day in the box but without the bubble“, testifies Michèle.

To scientifically verify these positive effects on covid patients, the study also included a control group treated only with conventional oxygenation. The results of the study are expected in June.