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. 1986 Apr;64(4):480-5.
doi: 10.1097/00000542-198604000-00011.

Cerebral oxygen tension in rats during deliberate hypotension with sodium nitroprusside, 2-chloroadenosine, or deep isoflurane anesthesia

W C Seyde, D E Longnecker
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Cerebral oxygen tension in rats during deliberate hypotension with sodium nitroprusside, 2-chloroadenosine, or deep isoflurane anesthesia

W C Seyde et al. Anesthesiology. 1986 Apr.
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Abstract

Thirty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into four groups: control animals and those receiving sodium nitroprusside (SNP), 2-chloroadenosine, or a high, inspired concentration of isoflurane to produce deliberate hypotension to a mean arterial blood pressure of 50 mmHg. Ventilation was controlled (FIo2 = 0.3); control animals and those treated with sodium nitroprusside or 2-chloroadenosine breathed isoflurane 1.4 vol%, whereas isoflurane, 3.9 vol%, was required to produce hypotension by deep anesthesia alone. Multiple tissue oxygen tension values (PtO2) were measured at intervals of 10 micron over a distance of 2 mm by advancing an oxygen microelectrode through the parietal cerebral cortex of all animals. The frequency of low tissue PO2 values (less than 10 mmHg) was increased with all forms of deliberate hypotension, but the magnitude of this change (a shift to the left in the frequency histogram) was significantly different among techniques. The shift toward lower PtO2 values during hypotension was least in animals receiving deep isoflurane anesthesia, intermediate in those receiving SNP, and greatest in those treated with 2-chloroadenosine. In rats, areas of the brain appear to be at risk for significant tissue hypoxia during hypotension produced by 2-chloroadenosine.

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