title: Pathophysiology of hemorrhagic shock. A model for studying the effects of acute blood loss in the rat.
abstract: A model of acute blood loss in rats with a reproducible mortality rate over a wide range of body weights was developed by withdrawing various amounts of fixed blood volume per 100 g body weight via the left common carotid artery and observing the survival of the animals. Younger (lighter) animals survived the bleeding longer than older (heavier) animals. As early as 70 min following the shock episode there was evidence of acute tubular necrosis in kidney proximal tubules and focal centrilobular necrosis in the liver. The 84%, 50%, or 16% body weight - mortality line was: V84 = -0.17 BW + 3.25; V50 = -0.18 BW + 3.16; or V16 = -0.18 BW + 3.01 in animals ranging from 250 to 400 g body weight (where V = bleeding volume ml/100 g body weight, BW = body weight in grams X 10(-2). To produce the same mortality rate, the bleeding volume per unit body weight decreased with increased body weight. On the other hand, the bleeding volume per total blood volume or per unit body surface area increased with increased body weight. The body weight-mortality line is a useful method to calculate the bleeding volume to produce predetermined mortality rate. This method can be easily applied to various pathophysiological and metabolic studies on the nature of acute blood loss as well as in the treatment of acute blood loss.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kamiyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kamano
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rutkowski
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Adams Cowley
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Trump
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001835:Body Weight; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012771:Shock, Hemorrhagic / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*