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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 104, 1388-1395, Copyright © 1992 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Influence of pH management on hemodynamics and metabolism in moderate hypothermia

JP Hering, T Schroder, D Singer and G Hellige
Department of Experimental Cardiology, University of Goettingen, Germany.

In moderate hypothermia, three different concepts of pH management have been described to date: pH-stat, alpha-stat, and alkalinity. In our study these pH strategies were compared in adult sheep, with animals serving as their own controls for direct comparability. Hemodynamic parameters, such as mean aortic pressure (from 109 +/- 12 to 72 +/- 23 mm Hg), cardiac output (from 5.55 +/- 1.25 to 4.5 +/- 0.82 L/min), and systemic oxygen consumption (from 3.73 +/- 0.8 to 1.81 +/- 0.4 ml/kg/min), decreased significantly with alpha-stat at 28 degrees C from values for normothermia. No marked or even significant differences were found among the three pH strategies in any value, with the exception of body oxygen consumption. The difference of 2% between pH- stat and alpha-stat, at 0.06 ml oxygen/kg/min, was significant (p < or = 0.05), however of no practical relevance because hypothermia itself caused a decrease of nearly 52%. With regard to myocardial parameters, pH-stat impaired myocardial function compared with both alpha-stat and alkalinity. At nearly identical mean aortic pressures and cardiac outputs, myocardial oxygen consumption reached the highest level in pH- stat (7.65 ml oxygen/100 gm/min; alpha-stat, 6.76 ml oxygen/100 gm/min; p < or = 0.05). Myocardial efficiency thus decreased from 21% (alpha- stat) to 17% (pH-stat). No evident changes in hemodynamic and metabolic values were found for alkalinity vs alpha-stat. The best response to continuously infused epinephrine, however, was found with alkalinity. According to our data there was an impairment of myocardial function without any evident further reduction in body metabolism with pH-stat vs alpha-stat. There were, however, no marked metabolic or hemodynamic differences between alkalinity and alpha-stat, with the exception of a better preservation of sensitivity to adrenergic stimuli with alkalinity.

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