San Juan De Dios Hospital in Córdoba has expanded its services with the launch of a hyperbaric medicine department together with VMG Salud. This drug consists of hyperbolic oxygen therapy in which oxygen is supplied at a higher than normal pressure to increase the amount of oxygen in the blood and thereby improve various pathologies where its activity has been demonstrated.
According to the hospital’s medical director, Enrique Cantillo, the commitment to this innovative system implies an expansion of the center’s range of services “as well as the province’s private health panorama, as we not only started it first, but we did. in the hospital environment “. He took the opportunity to make clear when making the statements that it concerns a multidisciplinary treatment in which coordination between specialties is crucial in order to refer patients who have the coronavirus.
The application of hyperbaric treatment is diverse and shows its effectiveness in a wide variety of pathologies from 24 specialties, including cardiology, cardiovascular problems, ENT, neurological, trauma, and aid in the rapid recovery of bone-muscle injuries. According to Valentín Martínez, head of VMG, one of the first applications this department will have will be to treat patients who have received COVID-19, who will be offered this therapy to improve the possible residual consequences. Health, which assures many hospitals have used these cameras for the recovery of postcovid patients.
The hyperbaric medicine unit of the San Juan de Dios hospital in Córdoba is equipped with two single-seater rooms of the Oxybarica corridor, made in Spain, the Oxylafe 90 model for the supply of 100 percent oxygen and up to three atmospheres with absolute pressure