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J Appl Physiol 63: 2286-2292, 1987;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 63, Issue 6 2286-2292, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Aerosol anesthesia increases hypercapnic ventilation and breathlessness in laryngectomized humans

R. D. Hamilton, A. J. Winning, A. Perry and A. Guz
Department of Medicine, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, United Kingdom.

The effect of local anesthetic aerosol inhalation on the ventilatory response and the sensation of breathlessness to CO2 rebreathing was studied in seven healthy male subjects with permanent tracheal stomas after laryngectomy for carcinoma. Inhalation of bupivacaine aerosol sufficient to abolish the cough reflex to mechanical probing below the carina increased the ventilatory response to CO2 in six of seven subjects compared with saline control. This was achieved by an increase in both respiratory frequency (f) and tidal volume (VT) in four subjects, f in one subject, and VT in one subject. All subjects reported that they were more breathless on rebreathing after bupivacaine aerosol. The six subjects who recorded breathlessness with a visual analog scale (VAS) indicated its onset at a lower minute ventilation (VE) and gave higher VAS scores for equivalent levels of VE after threshold. We conclude that the enhanced CO2 sensitivity and breathlessness on rebreathing after airway anesthesia results from altered lower airway receptor discharge.


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