Xenon medical sleep

Medical xenon is a medical inhalation anesthetic of the XXI age received on the basis of inert gas Xe, it has unique analgetic, vegetostabilizing and pharmacological properties.
Medical sleeps are already known and used in medicine for a long time, but only with the beginning of xenon use this procedure received a new coil of development.
Due to its physical and chemical properties, xenon opens new horizons in medicine and biology.
Medical xenon provides a surprisingly stable hemodynamics, moderate vasoplegia, increase of organ blood stream (brain, hepatic, renal, tissue), improvement of microcirculation, increase of stroke volume of the heart. Anesthesia with xenon is easily controlled, is comfortable and safe for the patient.
Xenon is not exposed to decay and metabolism in the body.
The carried out clinical studies have shown that preparation «XeMed» is an effective corrector of vegetative, hemodynamical, affective, behavioral and psychotic disorders in patients of the narcological type in the abstinent and early post-abstinent period.
Moreover, both at single and multiple sessions of xenon therapy, improvement of hemodynamical indicators and that of myocardial functions are noticed according to ECG data.
Xenon therapy stabilizes features of basic metabolism in drug addictve patients and is a powerful means arresting hypermetabolic (stress) syndrome – the main affecting factor, that results in polyorganic insufficiency. Basing of our observations, we can say that xenon does not cause psychical and physical dependence. The distinct reduction of neurological symptomatics and intellectual-mnestic disorders in patients with persistent manifestations of narcological diseases (a psycoorganic syndrome) clearly demonstrates reasonability of xenon therapy appication not only in abstinence and in a post-abstsinent period, but in the period of rehabilitation as well. Xenon therapy is not an alternative to other methods of treatment. On the contrary, its introduction to other regimens of narcological type patients’ therapy makes these regimens more effective.
On the background of the complex therapy with use of xenon-oxygen mixture inhalations the effective summarized doses of psychopharmacological preparations are reliably reduced. It is most actual for patients with toxic hepatitis, because it allows to reduce to the maximum the short periods of time the activity of the process, to decrease the level of zymosis, to prevent from development of hepatic encephalopathies.
Clinical studies showed that xenon was an effective corrector of cognitive, behavioral, affective, hallucinatory-delirious, as well as somato-neurological disorders in narcologic patients with different versions of acute encephalopathies.
Psychocorrection by means of xenon allows to avoid stable slowing-down of thinking, dispersion of attention, unconcentration of attention, weakness of memory functions.
The inhalation method of xenon introduction into the patient’ body provides complete security, fast action and good control of the pharmacological effect. Application of xenon treatment technique in complex treatment of narcological patients has some advantages:
- Rapid opioid detox under xenon anesthesia
- Considerable decrease of expressed vegetative psychosomatic disorders
- Expressed analgetic effect of xenon
- Diminishing of used medication doses and rapid normalization of sleeping
- Early patient’s adaptation to preparations - antagonists to opioid receptors
- Decrease of treatment periods
- A more earlier beginning of the rehabilitation stage of treatment with a possibility to carry out hypnotherapy in the state of xenon medical sleep.

Winner’ wounds do not hurt /Publilius Syrus/
Victor Zaporozhan
The Head Doctor of Medical Centre «Polynar», MD, anaesthesiologist and toxicologist.





