[Changes in gas metabolism and tissue oxygen balance during the hyperbaric oxygenation of patients with chronic thrombotic obliterating diseases of the extremities].

The study of some indices of external respiration through spirography, studies of acid-base status and oxygenation parameters of arterialized capillary blood, evaluation of tissue oxygen tension by means of polarography in 44 cases of chronic thromboobliterating disease of the extremities before and after therapy with 1.7--2.0 ata at 40 to 60 minutes exposure in single oxygen barochambers were carried out with the aim of investigation of alterations of gas exchange and tissue oxygen balance. It was found that in hyperbaric oxygenation the normalization of metabolic processes in an ischemic tissue takes place together with the elimination of oxygen deficit and deviations in acid-base status.