title: Nonpharmacologic circulatory support in the brain-dead animal.
abstract: A nonpharmacologic technique for providing an artificial peripheral resistance enabled the canine heart to pump blood for 12 hours in a brain-dead (spinal) animal model. The artificial peripheral resistance was provided by binding the body with elastic bandage. The only other support provided was artificial respiration. Following the 12-hour preservation period, the hearts were challenged to pump by the intravenous infusion of saline. Aortic pressure, cardiac output (CO), oxygen uptake, body temperature, arterial Na+, K+, pH, and HCO3-, and transchest ECG were monitored in all five animals studied during the control and 12-hour preservation periods. Mean blood pressure fell to 50-60 mmHg following cervical cord transection, rising to above 100 mmHg when the body was bound with elastic bandage that restored the peripheral resistance. During the 12-hour preservation period the average mean blood pressure fell from 118 to 60 mmHg, at which point the average normalized CO was 34 mL/min/kg. Following the saline challenge, the average CO increased to 1.89 times the value at the end of the preservation period, representing an average normalized value of 64.3 mL/min/kg (a typical value for the normal resting dog is 70 mL/min/kg). Body temperature decreased slightly in four animals and increased slightly in one. Na+ was virtually unchanged throughout the control and preservation periods, but K+ increased slightly in all animals, exceeding 5 mEq/L in one animal after 8.5 hours and in another after 10 hours. HCO3- was almost constant in all animals, as was pH. However, the pH was elevated during the preservation period due to slight overventilation to assure a high oxygen saturation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Hillenbrand Biomedical Engineering Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Geddes
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Janas
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Badylak
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001926:Brain Death / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003655:Decerebrate State / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004285:Dogs; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010791:Phrenic Nerve / Q000502:physiology; D014021:Tissue Preservation; D014655:Vascular Resistance