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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 68, Issue 5 2013-2018, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of cardiac oscillations and lung volume on acinar gas mixing during apnea

C. F. Mackenzie, M. Skacel, G. M. Barnas, W. J. Brampton and C. A. Alana
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201.

We evaluated the importance of cardiogenic gas mixing in the acini of 13 dogs during 2 min of apnea. 133Xe (1-2 mCi in 4 ml of saline) was injected into an alveolar region through an occluded pulmonary artery branch, and washout was measured by gamma scintillation scanning during continued occlusion or with blood flow reinstated. The monoexponential rate constant for Xe washout (XeW) was -0.4 +/- 0.08 (SE) min-1 at functional residual capacity (FRC) with no blood flow in the injected region. It decreased by more than half at lung volumes 500 ml above and 392 ml below FRC. With intact pulmonary blood flow, XeW was -1.0 +/- 0.08 (SE) min-1 at FRC, and it increased with decreasing lung volume. However, if calculated Xe uptake by the blood was subtracted from the XeW measured with blood flow intact, resulting values at FRC and at FRC + 500 ml were not different from XeW with no blood flow. Reasonable calculation of Xe blood uptake at 392 ml below FRC was not possible because airway closure, increased shunt, and other factors affect XeW. After death, no significant XeW could be measured, which suggests that XeW caused by molecular diffusion was small. We conclude that 1) the effect of heart motion on the lung parenchyma increases acinar gas mixing during apnea, 2) this effect diminishes above or below FRC, and 3) there is probably no direct effect of pulmonary vascular pulsatility on acinar gas mixing.


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