The levels of blood gases and energy metabolites strongly influence the outcome of animal experiments, for example in experimental stroke research. While mice have become prominent animal models for cerebral ischemia, little information is available on the effects of anesthetic drugs on blood parameters such as blood gases, glucose and lactate in this species. In this work, we collected arteria...

conclusions in samples stored in plastic syringes, overestimation of pao2 levels should be noted if samples cooled before analysis. in samples stored in plastic syringes, it is not necessary to store samples in iced water when analysis delayed up to one hour. results pao2 of the samples stored at 0°c was increased significantly after 60 minutes (p = 0.007). the paco2 of the samples kept for 30 ...

ess the relationship between umbilical cord blood gases at birth and morphology of umbilical cord, in a prospective study of 200 consecutive term delivery, we investigated the relationship between umbilical cord morphology characteristics (umbilical crd length, number of vascular coil, coiling index) and color of amniotic fluid and umbilical vessel blood gases. statistically significant linear ...

We determined the suitability of various heparin salts used for anticoagulation of whole-blood specimens for measurement of ionized calcium (iCa), blood gases, and electrolytes. We were particularly interested in a new heparin product containing both zinc and lithium cations (CNLZ heparin), in which the binding sites with greatest affinity for divalent cations are bound with zinc and low-affini...

BACKGROUND Potent inhaled anesthetics degrade in the presence of the strong bases (sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide) in carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbents. A new absorbent, Amsorb (Armstrong Medical Ltd., Coleraine, Northern Ireland), does not employ these strong bases. This study compared the scavenging efficacy and compound A production of two commercially available absorbents (soda lime ...

It is possible to produce a transient supersaturation or undersaturation in tissues and blood by sequentially breathing gases with different equilibration rates. If the ambient gas pressure is sufficiently high, the induced supersaturation can produce vascular bubbles. By means of the classical perfusion-dependent model of inert gas elimination, which assumes that the effects of diffusion are m...