According to The Wellness Lab
Atherosclerotic plaques are the primary pathological mechanism of cardiovascular disease seen in men’s health, and are often causes by a lifetime of bad dietary and health choices. The American Heart Association endorses hyperbaric oxygen for a heart attack.
The following information is cited in full from The Wellness Lab:
What is the Heart?
Hyperbaric oxygen has the healing power to bypass the atherosclerotic build-up of fats, cholesterol and other substances found in and on our artery walls. This build-up of plaque causes the arteries to narrow, thus blocking blood flow. The plaques can also burst, leading to a blood clot and myocardial infarction (development of dead part within the heart).
The Heart & Hyperbaric Oxygen:
- Oxidative modification of low density lipoproteins, induced by free radicals, have been clinically implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. This oxidative stress is significantly reduced by hyperbaric oxygen sessions, as hyperbaric oxygen stimulates superoxide dismutase which is the most powerful antioxidant and detoxification enzyme our bodies can produce – thus an antioxidant protection effect is enabled.
- Not only does hyperbaric oxygen induce long-term changes to help combat men’s cardiovascular disease, but HBO has also been awarded for its use in emergency treatment.
- The American Heart Association (AHA) 65th Scientific Session held in New Orleans issued a press release praising the use of hyperbaric oxygen to boost emergency treatment for heart attack.
- AHA advised that HBO can be used as a treatment to enhance clot-dissolving drugs ability to minimise heart damage and save the lives of heart attack patients.
- The statements came as a result of clinical trials which proved that the addition of HBO resulted in earlier relief of chest pain and ECG changes toward normal in patients treated with the clot-dissolver, tissue plasminogen activator. HBO also tended to preserve more of the heart’s blood pumping capacity.
Laboratory studies have shown that hyperbaric oxygen minimises cell damage and death by reducing fluid accumulation in injured heart cells. It is believed that hyperbaric oxygen’s primary effect in heart attack may be to reduce edema (fluid accumulation) in heart cells.
Dr Ellestad, a director of research at the Memorial Heart Institute at Long Breach Memorial Medical Center in California, studied forty-six heart attack patients, of which twenty-two only received standard care and the remaining twenty four patients got standard care followed by two hours of treatment in hyperbaric chamber. Patients treated with HBO felt chest pain relief an average of 271 minutes after the onset of heart attack symptoms, a statistically significant difference compared to the 671 minutes of patients who received only standard care. Dr Ellestad said patients generally reported an easing of chest pain within ten minutes of entering the hyperbaric chamber. Hyperbaric oxygen reduced 50% the time required for the heart to resume normal electrical activity, as determined by an electrocardiogram, which tells that hyperbaric oxygen has the ability to salvage heart muscle cells.
Clinical investigations by prime users of hyperbaric oxygen from around the world, especially from Russian exponents, have shown the following heart advantages:
In a study conducted by Dotsenko et al. investigating the influencer of hyperbaric oxygen treatment on clinical outcomes of recurrent myocardial infarction and survival rate, the group concluded that the joint application of hyperbaric oxygen and traditional methods in treating acute MI raised the 5-year survival rate from 84.4% to 95.9%.
The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the United Kingdom also conducted a study analysing the effect of hyperbaric oxygen on neuropsychometric dysfunction and systemic inflammatory response after cardiopulmonary bypass. The group concluded that pretreatment of hyperbaric oxygen can reduce neuropsychometric dysfunction and also modulate the inflammatory response after cardiopulmonary bypass.
When looking at acute coronary syndrome, Bennett et al. concluded that people with acute coronary syndrome may benefit from hyperbaric oxygen as there is some evidence that hyperbaric oxygen is associated with a reduction in the risk of death, the volume of damaged muscle and the time to relief from ischaemic pain.
View the Studies:
- Hyperbaric Oxygen and Your Heart – https://www.hyperbaricoxygentherapy.org.uk/news-articles/hyperbaric-oxygen-and-your-heart
- Influence of hyperbaric oxygenation treatment (HBOT) on clinical outcomes (recurrent myocardial infarction and survival rate) during five-year monitoring period after acute myocardial infarction – https://www.hyperbaricmedicalsolutions.com/hubfs/Post%20MI%20study%202013.pdf
- Pretreatment with Hyperbaric Oxygen and its effect on neuropsychometric dysfunction and systemic inflammatory response after cardiopulmonary bypass – https://sarasgarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Cardiac-Conditions-HBOT.pdf
- Protective effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO2) in cardiac care–A proposal to conduct a study into the effects of hyperbaric pre-conditioning in elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26094285/
- Does hyperbaric oxygen therapy improve outcome after heart attack? https://www.cochrane.org/CD004818/VASC_does-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-improve-outcome-after-heart-attack
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for acute coronary syndrome – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21833950/
- Stimulating angiogenesis by hyperbaric oxygen in an isolated tissue construct – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22292256/