Coronavirus treatment: who and how can helium-oxygen mixture help?
Clinical trials of helium-oxygen mixture for coronavirus have begun in Russia. Whom she has already helped to defeat the infection, the MIR 24 TV channel was told by the chief anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the Main Military Clinical Hospital. Burdenko Valery Stets.
– What is a helium-oxygen mixture?
Valery Stets: Helium is a gas that has been known since 1868. It was discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Jules Janssen and has been used for medical purposes for over 80 years. Initially, it was used by the US Navy for diving operations, since helium has the property of not dissolving in tissues and blood and displacing nitrogen. This served as the basis for the prevention of decompression sickness.
From the middle of the 20th century, work began to study the effect on other organs and systems. The work of Nikolai Burov had a great influence, thanks to cooperation with him, since the 2000s, we have been working closely with inert gases, in particular, with helium, and quite a lot of experience has accumulated its use in the treatment of respiratory failure, in particular, various kinds of pneumonia – bacterial, viral-bacterial, viral nature, including covid.
– What are the contraindications? Age, for example?
Valery Stets: Age is not a contraindication. There are a number of examples of the use of helium-oxygen mixtures in older people – men and women. We have had observations of 90-year-old, 95-year-old women and men effectively using these formulas for treatment, including covid.
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