Increasing the effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygenation in the treatment of patients with stage IV arterial occlusive diseases of the lower limbs
Kostiunin, V.N.; Pakhomov, V.I.; Feoktistov, P.L.; Petrova, E.A.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 135(10): 48-51
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 2418573 Document Number: 263249
An analysis of treatment of 122 patients has shown that the effectiveness of HBO can be enhanced by a combination with continuous intraarterial infusions and lumbar sympathectomy. An important condition for reaching the maximum effect of HBO is an increase of the initially low cardiac output in such patients.