Hyperbaric oxygen remedy, giving sufferers one hundred pc oxygen at a stress akin to 10-20 meters under sea degree, has been round for nearly 100 years. However the technique lacks fashionable proof from scientific research, which additionally means that there’s a lack of awareness about dosage, all sufferers obtain the identical dose.
“Once I began my analysis, I needed to learn how the remedy needs to be dosed to totally different sufferers,” says Anders Kjellberg, deputy chief doctor and head of the Hyperbaric Unit at Karolinska College Hospital and researcher who has now written a thesis on hyperbaric oxygen remedy.
However he solely had time to do two dose trials – then got here the covid-19 pandemic.
“We had sufferers with oxygen deficiency and uncontrolled irritation. That they had precisely the issues that hyperbaric oxygen remedy will help with,” says Anders Kjellberg.
He has examined the remedy on 17 covid-19 sufferers at three totally different hospitals and in contrast it with an equally massive management group.
“Within the 20 sufferers we had at Karolinska College Hospital, we noticed an enormous distinction between those that obtained the remedy and people who didn’t. They have been capable of go residence a lot earlier and their important parameters resembling pulse, respiratory charge and oxygenation improved,” he says.
The speculation is that the remedy exposes the immune cells to a stress that causes previous and unhealthy immune cells to die, thereby rejuvenating the whole inhabitants of immune cells that operate higher afterwards.
A research on 80 post-covid sufferers is now underway, with the hope that they may even profit from the remedy.
The outcomes will come later within the yr.”
Anders Kjellberg, deputy chief doctor and head of the Hyperbaric Unit at Karolinska College Hospital and researcher
