Oxygen Therapy in Acute Cardiac Condition



Oxygen Therapy in Acute Cardiac Condition

Introduction

The paper aims to analyze the significance of Oxygen Therapy in Acute Cardiac condition. There are several scholars that have provided their opinions and results of oxygen therapy in heart disease. Scholars are in favor of Oxygen therapy for Acute Cardiac Patients. The paper will focus on how oxygen therapy works for the patient suffering from acute heart disease. The paper also gives a comparative analysis of some scholars that has put light on this topic.

Oxygen Therapy

Oxygen Therapy can be defined as the regenerative course of treatment with oxygen, in which about 30 minutes, concentrated oxygen is inhaled through a mask or nasal catheter. It is combined with the use of antioxidants, physical and breathing exercises. Oxygen therapy has beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease. It supports the overall regeneration of the body, slows the aging process, and strengthens the immune system (Henninger et.al, 2009). Oxygen Therapy has provided good results in many cardiac patients, particularly in heart failure and coronary heart disease. It is observed that after some treatments there are improvements in the patient. Oxygen is an essential element it energizes and activates cellular processes in the human body. Under normal conditions, oxygen enters the body from air during respiration. The oxygen content in air is about 21% (Stub, et al., 2012). The lack of oxygen in the cells (hypoxia) leads to functional and organic lesions in various body systems (primarily respiratory, nervous and cardiovascular systems). So the major disease is associated with heart if the oxygen is not supplied to the body.

Oxygen therapy is widely used in medical practice, in the method of treatment, based on breathing pure oxygen with high (relative to the content of oxygen in the air). Oxygen is supplied from a cylinder (Moradkhan & Sinoway, 2010). The body needs good amount of oxygen to remain healthy. The Oxygen Therapy is especially for cardiovascular disease, high / low blood pressure, pulmonary hypertension, severe chronic heart failure, pulmonary heart disease, heart rhythm disturbances, Immunodeficiency condition weakness, convalescence.

Oxygen Therapy in Acute Cardiac Conditions

Studies on animals that have been carried out to test the implications of oxygen therapy on patients with cardiac conditions have led to the observation that hyperoxia leads directly to reduced levels of coronary blood flow (Burls, Cabello, Emparanza, Bayliss, & Quinn, 2010). The haemodynamic changes that follow tend to lead to the impairment of oxygen delivery because of impairment of blood flow; which is further complicated by the fact that the tissues are alreay hypoperfused by that time (Wijesinghe, Perrin, Ranchord, Simmonds, Weatherall, & Beasley, 2008). During hyperbaric oxygen therapy the person receives pure oxygen under increased atmospheric pressure in a pressure chamber. These conditions increase the normal oxygen solubility in the blood by about a factor of 20.

The multi-step oxygen therapy after Ardenne (SMT) is embedded in a concept with Vitamin / Vital fuel supply and movement training (Cabello, Burls, Emparanza, Bayliss, & Quinn, ...