[The effect of hyperbaric oxygenation on the course and outcome of acute dislocation syndrome in uncorrected and corrected experimental compression of the brain].

Acute compression-dislocation syndrome of a severe degree was reproduced in rabbits by dosed compression of the brain with an epidurally situated balloon. Animals of the main group were treated by HBO in persisting compression of the brain (series I) and after its correction (series II). Animals of the control group were not treated. HBO had no influence on mortality in series I, a tendency towards reduction of the animals's survival period under the effect of hyperoxia was noted. In series II HBO led to reduction of mortality among rabbits with the severest manifestations of the syndrome and a more frequent and full recovery of animals who survived.