Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 60, Issue 3 751-757, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Oxygen delivery and utilization in hypothermic dogs

G. Gutierrez, A. R. Warley and D. R. Dantzker

Hypothermia produces a decrease in metabolic rate that may be beneficial under conditions of reduced O2 delivery (Do2). Another effect of hypothermia is to increase the affinity of hemoglobin for O2, which can adversely affect the release of O2 to the tissues. To determine the overall effect of hypothermia on the ability of the peripheral tissues to extract O2 from blood, we compared the response to hypoxemia of hypothermic dogs (n = 8) and of normothermic controls (n = 8). The animals were anesthetized, mechanically ventilated, and paralyzed to prevent shivering. The inspired concentration of O2 was progressively reduced until the dogs died. The core temperatures of the control and hypothermic dogs were 37.7 +/- 0.3 and 30.5 +/- 0.1 degree C, respectively (P less than 0.01). The O2 consumption (VO2) of the control dogs was significantly greater than that of the hypothermic dogs (P less than 0.05), being 4.7 +/- 0.4 and 3.2 +/- 0.3 ml X min-1 X kg-1, respectively. Hypothermia produced a left shift of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve (ODC) to a PO2 at which hemoglobin is half-saturated with O2 of 19.8 +/- 0.7 Torr (control = 32.4 +/- 0.7 Torr, P less than 0.01). The O2 delivery at which the VO2 becomes supply dependent (DO2crit) was 8.5 ml X min-1 X kg-1 for control and 6.2 ml X min-1 X kg-1 for hypothermia. The hypothermic dogs maintained their base-line VO2's at lower arterial PO2's than control.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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