Respiratory autoresuscitation following severe acute hypoxemia in anesthetized adult rats

Autor: Rebeka Srbu, Andrew Krause, Harold James Bell, Zachary Nowak
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology. 232:43-53
ISSN: 1569-9048
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2016.06.006
Popis: In the present study we investigated the pattern and efficacy of respiratory autoresuscitation in spontaneously breathing adult male rats across three separate anesthetic backgrounds. Each animal was administered one of three injectable anesthetics to achieve a surgical plane of anesthesia: ketamine-xylazine (KET, n=10), pentobarbital (PEN, n=10), or urethane (URE, n=10). Animals were tracheostomized and equipped with a femoral artery catheter to record airflow and arterial pressures. In response to a bout of breathing anoxic air, none of the 10 URE animals were able to mount a successful autoresuscitation response. In contrast, all KET and PEN animals survived all four consecutive anoxic exposures, restoring eupneic breathing in all cases. Moreover, only 4/10 URE animals expressed gasping breaths following the onset of respiratory arrest, and these were temporally delayed (p
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