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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 39, 184-191, Copyright © 1992 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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Changes in PETCO2 and pulmonary blood flow after bronchial occlusion in dogs

DH Johnson, PC Chang, TS Hurst, FB Reynolds, SA Lang and I Mayers
Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

The use of PETCO2 in detecting accidental bronchial intubation was investigated. The PETCO2 was measured in six mongrel dogs after occluding the left mainstem bronchus in three conditions; pentobarbital anaesthesia, 0.8% halothane insufflation together with pentobarbital anaesthesia, and simultaneous left pulmonary artery and bronchial airway occlusion with intravenous pentobarbital anaesthesia. An external flow probe measured left pulmonary artery blood flow. The PETCO2 decreased after bronchial occlusion during pentobarbital (35 +/- 3 vs 30 +/- 5 mmHg) and halothane-pentobarbital (30 +/- 6 vs 25 +/- 6 mmHg) conditions (P less than 0.05). However, within three minutes of bronchial occlusion, the values of PETCO2 had returned to their pre-occlusion values. After five minutes of bronchial occlusion pulmonary artery blood flow in the non-ventilated lung decreased (P less than 0.05) during pentobarbital (770 +/- 533 ml.min-1 vs 575 +/- 306 ml.min-1) and halothane-pentobarbital (495 +/- 127 ml.min-1 vs 387 +/- 178 ml.min-1) conditions. Simultaneous bronchial and pulmonary artery occlusion prevented any changes in PETCO2. It was concluded that accidental one-lung ventilation results in small and transient decreases in PETCO2. A redistribution of blood flow from the non-ventilated to ventilated lung occurs which restores PETCO2 to the original values observed with two-lung ventilation.


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