The film tells about the work of the All-Union Center for Hyperbaric Oxygenation, the use of pressure chambers for treating patients with oxygen under high pressure, and the prospects for the use of barotherapy in domestic medicine.
Car traffic near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin.
View of a part of the Moskva River in winter.
Views of Moscow.
The building of the All-Union Center for Hyperbaric Oxygenation.
Panorama of equipment and communications in the basement of the center, types of communications.
Interior view of one of the rooms of the computing center.
An employee of the center takes readings from devices.
Employees of the center at work.
Panorama of the pressure chambers, employees of the center take readings from devices (panorama).
Interior view of the hall of the pressure chambers of the center.
Turning on the lights before the start of a surgical operation.
Doctors and nurses before the start of an operation.
The nurse begins to administer anesthesia.
Stages of preparation for an operation performed in a pressure chamber, the doctor washes his hands.
Sterilization of surgical instruments.
The surgeon finishes washing his hands, enters the anteroom of the pressure chamber.
Anesthesiologist at work, an oxygen mask on the patient's face.
The doctor puts on special clothes and rubber gloves for the operation, heads to the operating table.
Closing the doors of the pressure chamber.
The face of a surgeon hidden by a medical mask, performing an operation in a pressure chamber.
A team of surgeons during an operation in a pressure chamber, the faces of doctors.
The operation of the artificial respiration apparatus.
The operation of the patient's condition control devices during the operation.
Doctors at the control panel of the pressure chamber room monitor the progress of the operation.
Transferring a blood sample for express analysis through a special airlock.
Closing the hermetic hatch of the pressure chamber.
Doctors observe the actions of their colleagues performing an operation in the pressure chamber.
Removing a syringe with the patient's blood from the hermetic airlock.
Surgeons continue performing an operation in the pressure chamber.
USSR Minister of Health Petrovsky B.V. speaks about hyperbaric oxygenation as a new direction in modern medicine, about the advantages of barotherapy for preserving the patient's health, about the work of the All-Union Center for Hyperbaric Oxygenation, about the creation of similar centers in large cities and union republics of the USSR, about the prospects for treating various diseases by barotherapy (synchronously).
View of part of the pressure chamber room.
Patients enter the pressure chamber room.
The doctor closes the door of one of the pressure chambers.
The patients sit in chairs in the pressure chamber.
Petrovsky Boris Vasilievich - surgeon
Healthcare Organizer
statesman and public figure
1980
Moscow
Winter
The head of the All-Union Center of Hyperbaric Oxygenation, S. N. Efuni, talks about the design of the barocenter in the early 1960s, the development of baric therapy in domestic medicine, the various functions of the center's barochambers, talks about performing operations in a barochamber, talks about various types of treatment used in barochambers, and the creation of an entire hyperbaric oxygenation system in the country (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Academician B. V. Petrovsky performs an operation in a barochamber.
Patients in oxygen masks during a session in one of the barochambers.
Entrance to the barochamber for treating intensive care patients.
View of a part of the barochamber hall.
Placing a patient in a single-person barochamber-capsule.
The patient's face in the capsule under a glass dome.
The doctor communicates with the patient on the phone.
The doctor finishes the preliminary examination of the patient and closes the lid of the single-person barochamber.
Adjusting the barochamber operation.
A patient in a single-seat pressure chamber.
Measuring the patient's blood pressure after a session in the pressure chamber.
Scheme of oxygen delivery to various organs of the body, movement of erythrocytes (animation).
Scheme of oxygen saturation of blood plasma in a pressure chamber (animation).
A patient at an ophthalmologist's appointment.
Faces of the doctor and the patient.
Checking the patient's vision using a special device.
Doctors at the control panel of the pressure chamber.
Patients take their seats before the start of a treatment session in the pressure chamber.
Giving a command to close the doors of the pressure chamber.
Controls of the pressure chamber on the control panel.
The doctor in the pressure chamber reports on readiness to start the session.
The face of the doctor.
One of the doctors from the outside watches through a round window what is happening inside the pressure chamber.
The doctor from the outside reports on his actions to control the pressure chamber.
Patients during a session in the pressure chamber.
Doctors at the control panel of the pressure chamber.
Behavior of experiments on animals in the experimental department of the barocenter.
Conducting a heart operation on a rabbit, doctors' faces.
Placing a rabbit in a pressure chamber to study the method of treating a heart attack in a pressure chamber.
Pressure chamber controls, a doctor watches an experimental rabbit.
Examination of tissues of experimental animals in the laboratory of the pressure center.
Placing tissue samples in special equipment.
The ambulance team car goes to a call.
The patient is taken on a gurney to the intensive care unit.
The nurse on duty makes an entry in the log.
Doctors examine a patient with a heart attack.
The work of the human heart during a heart attack (animation).
Transportation of a patient with a heart attack to a single pressure chamber.
Closing the pressure chamber lid.
The doctor examines a patient transferred to a ward after treatment in a pressure chamber.
The patient, who has undergone a session in a pressure chamber, comes to see the doctor.
The cardiologist looks at the patient's cardiogram and talks to him.
Petrovsky Boris Vasilievich - surgeon
Healthcare Organizer
statesman and public figure Efuni Sergey Naumovich -- anesthesiologist
physiologist
1980
Moscow
An ambulance car is on its way to a call.
A patient with a heart attack is undergoing surgery.
The barocenter doctor makes a final diagnosis.
The attending physician reports on the progress of treatment of one of the patients admitted to the barocenter with a heart attack, showing X-ray images.
The participants of the medical council speak about the positive dynamics after treatment in the barochamber, the doctors' faces.
Making a decision to place a patient in a single-person barochamber.
A patient with arrested breathing undergoing surgery on the trachea in a barochamber.
A diagram of removing a damaged section of the tracheal canal in a barochamber, with oxygen supplied through a tube (animation).
The hands of the surgeon performing the surgery.
The doctor's face.
The doctor is trying to bring the patient out of a comatose state due to cerebral air embolism.
The recorder is giving out data.
The patient is being delivered to the barochamber to dissolve the bubbles in the blood vessels.
The doctors are preparing the patient for surgery in the barochamber.
The doctor in the pressure chamber reports his actions to the doctor at the control panel of the pressure chamber and the patient's condition parameters.
The doctors of the pressure center during manipulations with a patient in a comatose state, placed in the pressure chamber to increase the pressure.
Closing the pressure chamber door.
The wall clock face.
The face of a patient in a coma.
The artificial respiration apparatus is working.
The doctor observes the patient from the outside through the pressure chamber window.
Control instrument scales.
The doctors at the control panel of the pressure chamber, giving the command for decompression.
The process of decompression and bringing the patient out of a coma.
Control instrument scales.
The face of the patient lying in the pressure chamber.
The doctors of the pressure center monitor the patient's condition during decompression.
Sending lunch through a hermetic airlock to the doctor in the pressure chamber.
The doctor dozing in a chair inside the pressure chamber, the clock face.
The progress of monitoring the patient's condition.
The doctor begins to wake the patient.
The patient comes out of the coma, opens his eyes, the faces of the doctor and the patient.
Views of the pressure chamber hall.
View of the building of the All-Union Center of Hyperbaric Oxygenation.
View of one of the streets of Moscow.
1980
Moscow
Winter