Вестник медицинского института «Реавиз»: Реабилитация, врач и здоровье (Apr 2021)

Case report: thermal helium in the treatment of coronavirus pneumonia caused by new coronavirus infection COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)

  • S. V. Zhuravel’,
  • P. V. Gavrilov,
  • N. K. Kuznetsova,
  • I. I. Utkina,
  • M. A. Talyzin,
  • V. E. Aleksandrova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20340/vmi-rvz.2021.1.COVID.1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1
pp. 5 – 10

Abstract

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The novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which originated in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has triggered an outbreak of a respiratory illness called COVID-19. Helium is a colorless inert gas, odorless and tasteless. Thermal helium-oxygen therapy is a new and innovative method that allows you to maintain the diffusion capacity of the lungs. The clinical case presented in this article shows that inhalation of a thermal gas mixture of helium and oxygen (t-He/O2) in the standard therapy of a patient with pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 positively influenced the clinical picture of the disease, improves gas exchange, and promotes accelerating the elimination of the virus, rehabilitation and discharge of the patient.

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