Effects of Partially Ionised Medical Oxygen, Especially with O 2 • ?, in Vibration White Finger Patients

Slavomír Perečinský, Lenka Murínová, Ivan Engler, Viliam Donič, Pavol Murín, Marek Varga and Ľubomír Legáth
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Slavomír Perečinský: Department of Occupational Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, 04190 Kosice, Slovak Republic
Lenka Murínová: Department of Occupational Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, 04190 Kosice, Slovak Republic
Ivan Engler: Department of Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, 04001 Kosice, Slovak Republic
Viliam Donič: Department of Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, 04001 Kosice, Slovak Republic
Pavol Murín: Cardiology Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, 04001 Košice, Slovak Republic
Marek Varga: Department of Occupational Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, 04190 Kosice, Slovak Republic
Ľubomír Legáth: Department of Occupational Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, 04190 Kosice, Slovak Republic

IJERPH, 2014, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-10

Abstract: A major symptom of hand-arm vibration syndrome is a secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon—vibration white finger (VWF)—which results from a vasospasm of the digital arteries caused by work with vibration devices leading to occupational disease. Pharmacotherapy of VWF is often ineffective or has adverse effects. The aim of this work was to verify the influence of inhalation of partially ionized oxygen (O 2 • ? ) on peripheral blood vessels in the hands of patients with VWF. Ninety one (91)patients with VWF underwent four-finger adsorption plethysmography, and the pulse wave amplitude was recorded expressed in numeric parameters—called the native record. Next, a cold water test was conducted following with second plethysmography. The patients were divided in to the three groups. First and second inhaled 20-min of ionized oxygen O 2 • ? or oxygen O 2 respectively. Thirth group was control without treatment. All three groups a follow-up third plethysmography—the post-therapy record. Changes in the pulse wave amplitudes were evaluated. Inpatients group inhaling O 2 • ? a modest increase of pulse wave amplitude was observed compared to the native record; patients inhaling medical oxygen O 2 and the control showed a undesirable decline of pulse wave amplitude in VWF fingers. Strong vasodilatation were more frequent in the group inhaling O 2 • ? compare to O 2 ( p < 0.05). Peripheral vasodilatation achieved by inhalation of O 2 • ? could be used for VWF treatment without undesirable side effect in hospital as well as at home environment.

Keywords: hand-arm vibration syndrome; vibration white finger; cold provocation test; ionized oxygen therapy; O 2 • ?; O 2; finger plethysmography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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