BJA Advance Access published online on July 26, 2004
British Journal of Anaesthesia, doi:10.1093/bja/aeh232
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1 Critical Care Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK; MRC Trauma Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.nirmalan{at}man.ac.uk.
Background. Global end diastolic volume (GEDV) has a constant and predictable relationship to intrathoracic blood volume (ITBV). The present study assesses the difference between ITBV derived from GEDV and ITBV measured directly in pigs with acute lung injury (ALI) and mild haemorrhage. Methods. We caused ALI in 12 anaesthetized pigs by i.v. injection of oleic acid and removed 10% of estimated blood volume. EVLW, GEDV, ITBV (COLD; Pulsion Medical Systems), PaO2/FIO2, lung compliance and haemodynamic variables were measured at baseline (time 0) and at 30 and 120 min. All animals were volume-resuscitated, followed by measurements at 180 min. A linear equation estimated from the 44 pairs of ITBV and GEDV values in 11 animals was applied iteratively to the four GEDV measurements in the 12th animal, enabling 48 comparisons between measured (ITBVm) and derived ITBV (ITBVd) to be made. Results. Increase in extravascular lung water index (EVLWi) was associated with significant pulmonary hypertension, worsening of oxygenation and compliance (repeated measures ANOVA; P<0.05). There was good within-subject correlation and agreement between ITBVm and ITBVd (r=0.72, mean bias 0.8 ml; SD 32 ml). Mean error in deriving ITBV from GEDV was 4.5%. (SD 4.2%; range 0.05-19%). There were no significant differences in errors in the presence of small (up to 10%) deficits in blood volume (F=1.0; P=0.41). Conclusions. ITBV estimated by thermodilution alone is comparable to measurements made by the thermo-dye dilution technique in the presence of pulmonary hypertension and mild deficits in total blood volume.
Laboratory Investigation
Estimation of errors in determining intrathoracic blood volume using thermal dilution in pigs with acute lung injury and haemorrhage
2 Department of Computer Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
3 MRC Trauma Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; North Western Medical Physics Department, South Manchester University Hospitals, Manchester, UK
4 MRC Trauma Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
5 MRC Trauma Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Critical Care Unit, Hope Hospital, Manchester, UK
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Presented in part at the Anaesthetic Research Society Meeting in Manchester, UK, November 20, 2003.
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