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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 46, 605-612, Copyright © 1999 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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Inhaled nitric oxide does not alter pulmonary or cardiac effects of fat embolism in dogs after cemented arthroplasty

RJ Byrick, JB Mullen, PM Murphy, JC Kay, TE Stewart and G Edelist
Department of Anaesthesia, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PURPOSE: We examined the effect of inhaled nitric oxide (NO) on the acute pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular (RV) dilation after fat embolism. METHODS: A bilateral cemented arthroplasty (BCA), created fat embolism in 20 dogs. In Part A, 12 dogs were randomized to an NO group (n=6, inhaled NO 40 ppm before BCA and throughout the study) or a control group (n=6). In Part B, a third group of dogs (n=8) were given NO 20-40 ppm 2-3 min after BCA when pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) increased. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and invasive hemodynamic monitoring evaluated the hemodynamic response to BCA. Postmortem, quantitative morphometry was used to estimate the number of fat emboli and diameter of lung vessel occluded by fat. RESULTS: Part A: The increase in PAP in the NO group (16 +/- 1 to 34 +/- 9 mmHg) within three minutes of BCA was not different from that in the control group (14 +/- 4 to 35 +/- 9 mmHg). Within three minutes of BCA, TEE demonstrated RV dilation in all groups (P < 0.05) but there was no difference in the change in RV area in the NO and control groups. When NO was given after BCA, no difference in PAP or RV dilation was noted from that in the control group. There were no differences, at post mortem, between the groups in the diameter of lung vessel occluded by fat CONCLUSION: Whether given before the embolic insult or two to three minutes after the onset of pulmonary hypertension, inhaled NO did not attenuate the acute pulmonary hypertension or RV dilation after cemented arthroplasty.


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