METHOD FOR INCREASING OPERATOR'S COGNITIVE ABILITIES Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61M16/12 A61G10/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: individual's hypoxia sensitivity is determined first by a 10-minute hypoxic test with measuring heart rate and oxygen saturation (SpO₂) with an increment of min. once per two seconds. The test involves recording individual minimum SpO₂ (SpO₂ min) and maximum heart rate. An excessive pressure of 0.03 MPa is generated in a pressure chamber; and an individual being tested breathes with a hypoxic-hyperoxic gas mixture heated to 40-80°C; the above mixture is mixed oxygen and helium. Duration of a session is 25-30 minutes. One session consists of 5-7 cycles each of which represents an interchange of the hyperbaric hypoxic exposure to the gas mixture with a volume ratio of oxygen 6% and the hyperbaric hyperoxic exposure to the gas mixture with a volume ratio of oxygen 30%. The hyperoxic test is conducted to achieve either minimum SpO₂, or maximum heart rate, according as which event occurs first. The hyperoxic test is conducted to achieve initial SpO₂ and heart rate. The number of daily sessions makes 3-7.

EFFECT: method enables improving sensation, attention, memory, thinking, ability to combined action ensured by the hypoxic and hyperoxic exposure with the heated oxygen-helium gas mixtures promoting the optimised body temperature and higher compensatory-adaptive body capabilities due to cyclic hypoxia and hyperoxia with the exposure length specified individually on the basis of biological feedback depending on the individual's fitness growth.

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