AO & Arteries

✅Doctors at the Boston University Medical Center compared the effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen and AO in their ability to oxygenate tissues. They put rabbits in pressure chambers and pumped in oxygen. They compared the level of tissue oxygen with the level found

when AO was given in an artery or a vein.

✅The veins are the blood vessels that you see on the back of your hand, the arms and feet. You can't see arteries. The veins return the blood to the heart from the far reaches of the body. The arteries deliver the blood back to the body from the heart after it has gone through the lungs to pick up oxygen (see below).

✅The doctors found that if they gave AO into an artery, it was just as effective at raising tissue oxygen levels as the hyperbaric method. But given in the vein, there was no rise in oxygen levels of the tissues.

✅This difference is important because it is easy to give medication in a vein, but not so easy to give it through an artery. There are many reasons for this. The main one being that arteries are not as accessible as veins. It should be noted, however, that current clinical trials decline the claim that AO doesn't work when given in the vein.