[Prognostic value of the reactions of resuscitated neurological patients during hyperbaric oxygenation]

A complex of various physiological reactions encountered in critically ill patients with brain vascular disturbances and brain traumas in the course of hyperbaric oxygenation (NBO) have been studied. Different nature of reactions has been established in patients who survived and in those with lethal outcome. Two main types of reactions have been identified: prognostically favourable and prognostically unfavourable. The difference is associated with the oxygen reactivity of the affected brain and body. The reactivity was either retained or damaged, which made NBO effective in some cases and ineffective in others.