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CURES OF CORONARY AFFECTIONS USING CO2 BATH
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The Hospital of Cardiology of
Balatonfüred, in the Route of  Wellness, receives about ten thousand patient
annually.
 Is
considered the biggest Centre in Cardio-rehabilitation of Hungary and also a
world reference, since1927, when the Hindu poet and thinker Rabindranath Tagore
recovered from his coronary ailment in this hospital.
The bath of CO2 is one of the healing factors better known in Balatonfüred.
The spring Kossuth and other ones located close to the hospital, supply a
natural water with CO2 and a mineral contribution rich in magnesium, iron,
potassium, calcium, sodium, sulphur, and other minerals. The temperature of the
waters of the springs is of 14-15ş centigrade and it is stored in a great pool
that channels the water toward the building of the SPA. Later on, the water with
CO2 gas is warmed to 32-34şC and it is used for the treatment.
The spring of Kossuth was built in 1802. The water with CO2 gas, exercises a
therapeutic effect in the whole nervous system. The bubbles of gas CO2 excite
the temperature sensors of the skin and the CO2 of the water, absorbed in the
conjunctive tissue, it causes a reactive hiperemia. Although the temperature of
the body decreases, the patients feel lyke a sensation of isothermic temperature.
According to sources consulted by TERMASWORLD, the bath of CO2 through this
effect, represents the gentlest and older form in hibernation and it exercises a
sedative effect in the nervous system. The natural bath of C02 combined with
other modern treatments of Physiotherapy grants to Balatonfüred the range of
healthy city of Europe.
 EQUIPMENT
The hospital has several modern equipments to measure the physical capacity
of the heart patients and specialized personnel as well as a unit of intensive
care (UCI). The patients which have suffer recently a myocardium infart and
those with severe alterations of rhythm, they also receive treatment in the
hospital.
As the medical team of the center explains, there are always available
defibrillators and meters of lung pressure and equipments to take x-rays in
cases of urgency. Moreover, they can to carry out determinations of the heart
yield by means of radioisótopos for the evaluation of the hemodynamics of the
patients seriously ill.
"Each class of determination using radioisótopes, included that of Talium-201
for exercise test, is carried out in our laboratory of isotopes. For the special
treatments and rhythm alterations, we carry out electrophysiologic exams to find
the most appropriate treatment. Additionally, the monitored surveillance Holter
24-horas can be of essential value."
The pacemakers implantation is one of the specialties of the hospital. For
this reason the specialists coincide in pointing out that "the national or
foreigner patients, they undergo different exams before to make a decision and
to be operated here ". The Echo cardiograph of two dimensions and cardiograph
M-mode, they help the doctors in the correct diagnosis of the cardiac illnesses.
For the special physical entertainment there is an small swimming pool. This
preparation is directed by experienced therapists.
It is necessary to highlight that one of the advantages of Balatonfured is
the excellent microclimate. The clean air and the moderate humidity exercises a
healing effect in the patients suffering from heart and repiratory system
problems.
Finally to point out that the Hungarian cardiology counts with excellent
professionals and a desert international prestige, being Balatonfüred the
permanent headquarters of scientific meetings of the Hungarian Society of
Cardiology.
His promoter Tibor Debroczy, director of the State Hospital of Balatonfüred,
organized in September of 1957 the first meeting of cardiologists. In 1958 and
1959 took place several itinerant congresses in Balatonfüred, in the context of
"day doctors" and since 1962, it become a tradition to celebrate these
scientific encounters, once a year, during the month of May.
TAGORE PROMENADE
 The
city of Balatonfüred was granted the category of healthy place and its sour
waters and springs were declared of medicinal character in the year 1772. The
first doctor specialized in thermalism was József Manes Oesterreicher (1786).
It was in the year 1971 when the city became a reference to the "places of
health."
The city has a beautiful promenade in the bank of the Balaton Lake, named
after the famous hindu poet and thinker Rabindranath Tagore (previously it was
called Promenade Kolos and later on Promenade Deák). The heart illness of the
famous Hindu poet was treated in the Hospital of Balatonfüred, in 1926. After
his recovery, he planted a tree in the park of health.
This act was based in a old Hindu legend that says that if the tree takes
root, its planter will live a lot of time so that he can see the new buds. In
fact, Tagore lived during other 17 years after having planted the tree.
A Hindu forest has been created around the commemorative tree and the poet's
statue was set up in the last decades. Several presidents of the Indian Republic
even Indira Gandhi greeted the memory of Tagore also planting several lindens.
Balatonfured is a traditional watering place, located in The Healthy Route
through the Western Trans-Danube.
The mentioned route and The Thermal Route though the Royal Spas, are parts of
the series Healthy Routes, interactive edition, published by the GRUPO TERMAS
and BUSCASALUD.COM
The Healthy Route through the Western Trans-Danube and the paradise of the
Wellness, is one of the most emblemátic thermal-tourist circuits of Hungary for
vacations of rest and health.
MORE INFORMATION: www.hungriaturismo.com
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