METHOD FOR INCREASING TOLERANCE TO PHYSICAL EXERCISES IN AGED PATIENTS WITH STABLE EXERTIONAL STENOCARDIA OF FUNCTIONAL CLASSES I AND II

摘要

A method for increasing the tolerance to physical exercises in patients of elderly age with the stable exertional stenocardia of the functional classes I and II provides for the supplementing of the basic therapy with the course of the interval normobaric hypoxic trainings. Trainings mode is selected on an individual basis taking into account the previous assessment of the susceptibility to the hypoxia assayed by the hypoxic test (breathing 12% oxygen mixture). The minimal training course comprises 10 sessions. Each session involves four 5-minite cycles of breathing the hypoxic mixture alternating with 5-minite cycles of breathing the atmospheric air. The breathing rate and oxygen content in the breathing mixture are monitored in the training course.