title: Ultrafast and whole-body cooling with total liquid ventilation induces favorable neurological and cardiac outcomes after cardiac arrest in rabbits.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In animal models of cardiac arrest, the benefit afforded by hypothermia is closely linked to the rapidity of the decrease in body temperature after resuscitation. Because total liquid ventilation (TLV) with temperature-controlled perfluorocarbons induces a very rapid and generalized cooling, we aimed to determine whether this could limit the post-cardiac arrest syndrome in a rabbit model. We especially focused on neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, liver and kidney dysfunctions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Anesthetized rabbits were submitted to either 5 or 10 minutes of untreated ventricular fibrillation. After cardiopulmonary resuscitation and resumption of a spontaneous circulation, the animals underwent either normothermic life support (control) or therapeutic hypothermia induced by TLV. The latter procedure decreased esophageal and tympanic temperatures to 32°C to 33°C within only 10 minutes. After rewarming, the animals submitted to TLV exhibited an attenuated neurological dysfunction and decreased mortality 7 days later compared with control. The neuroprotective effect of TLV was confirmed by a significant reduction in brain histological damages. We also observed limitation of myocardial necrosis, along with a decrease in troponin I release and a reduced myocardial caspase 3 activity, with TLV. The beneficial effects of TLV were directly related to the rapidity of hypothermia induction because neither conventional cooling (cold saline infusion plus external cooling) nor normothermic TLV elicited a similar protection.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ultrafast cooling instituted by TLV exerts potent neurological and cardiac protection in an experimental model of cardiac arrest in rabbits. This could be a relevant approach to provide a global and protective hypothermia against the post-cardiac arrest syndrome.
authors.affiliation: INSERM, U955, Créteil, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chenoune
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lidouren
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Adam
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pons
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Darbera
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bruneval
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ghaleh
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zini
authors.forename: J-L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Dubois-Randé
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carli
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vivien
authors.forename: J-D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Ricard
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berdeaux
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tissier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced / Q000379:methods*; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology; D021061:Liquid Ventilation; D008099:Liver / Q000502:physiology; D008168:Lung / Q000502:physiology; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D011817:Rabbits; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013997:Time Factors; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D005466:Fluorocarbons