[Effect of hyperbaric oxygenation on experimental pancreas necrosis in pigs]

A pancreatic necrosis was produced in 7 piglets by means of a sodiumdesoxycholacid trypsin mixture. 4 animals served as control. All animals get a basis-infusion therapy. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) was applied additionally in 3 animals. All control animals survived. The three animals with HBO deceased in average after 22 days, those without HBO deceased already after 4.25 days. Laboratory and circulatory measures show no significant differences. The autopsy statements were different from the age of necrosis. The conclusion by the extension of the average survival time in experimental pancreatic necrosis by means of HBO is that the high lethality of the pancreatic necrosis can be reduced by means of HBO.