Influence of asymptomatic pneumonia on the response to hemorrhage and resuscitation in swine.
BACKGROUND
Investigation of resuscitation fluids in our swine hemorrhage model revealed moderate to severe chronic pneumonia in five swine at necropsy. Our veterinary staff suggested that we perform a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from these animals. We compared the data to that of ten healthy swine to determine the physiologic consequences of the added stress on our hemorrhage/resuscitation model.


METHODS
Anesthetized, immature female swine (40 ± 5 kg) were instrumented for determining arterial and venous pressures, cardiac output and urine production. A controlled hemorrhage of 20 ml/kg over 4 min 40 sec was followed at 30 min by a second hemorrhage of 8 ml/kg and resuscitation with 1.5 ml/kg/min of LR solutions to achieve and maintain systolic blood pressure at 80 ± 5 mmHg for 3.5 hrs. Chemistries and arterial and venous blood gasses were determined from periodic blood samples along with hemodynamic variables.


RESULTS
There were significant decreases in survival, urine output, cardiac output and oxygen delivery at 60 min and O2 consumption at 120 min in the pneumonia group compared to the non-pneumonia group. There were no differences in other metabolic or hemodynamic data between the groups.


CONCLUSIONS
Although pneumonia had little influence on pulmonary gas exchange, it influenced cardiac output, urine output and survival compared to healthy swine, suggesting a decrease in the physiologic reserve. These data may be relevant to patients with subclinical infection who are stressed by hemorrhage and may explain in part why some similarly injured patients require more resuscitation efforts than others.
United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
John W
JW
Burns
Jill L
JL
Sondeen
M Dale
MD
Prince
J Scot
JS
Estep
Michael A
MA
Dubick
D000818:Animals; D058070:Asymptomatic Diseases; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000502:physiology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000502:physiology; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D013552:Swine; D013997:Time Factors; D014556:Urine
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