Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 77, Issue 1 313-316, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Time course of augmentation and depression of hypoxic ventilatory responses at altitude

M. Sato, J. W. Severinghaus and P. Bickler
Department of Anesthesia, University of California Medical School, San Francisco 94143.

Hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) and hypoxic ventilatory depression (HVD) were measured in six subjects before, during, and after 12 days at 3,810-m altitude (barometric pressure approximately 488 Torr) with and without 15 min of preoxygenation. HVR was tested by 5-min isocapnic steps to 75% arterial O2 saturation measured by pulse oximetry (Spo2) at an isocapnic PCO2 (P*CO2) chosen to set hyperoxic resting ventilation to 140 ml.kg-1.min-1. Hypercapnic ventilatory response (HCVR, 1.min-1.Torr-1) was tested at ambient and high SPO2 6-8 min after a 6- to 10-Torr step increase of end-tidal PCO2 (PETCO2) above P*CO2. HCVR was independent of preoxygenation and was not significantly increased at altitude (when corrected to delta logPCO2). Preoxygenated HVR rose from -1.13 +/- 0.23 (SE) l.min-1.%SPO2(-1) at sea level to -2.17 +/- 0.13 by altitude day 12, without reaching a plateau, and returned to control after return to sea level for 4 days. Ambient HVR was measured at P*CO2 by step reduction of SPO2 from its ambient value (86-91%) to approximately 75%. Ambient HVR slope was not significantly less, but ventilation at equal levels of SPO2 and PCO2 was lower by 13.3 +/- 2.4 l/min on day 2 (SPO2 = 86.2 +/- 2.3) and by 5.9 +/- 3.5 l/min on day 12 (SPO2 = 91.0 +/- 1.5; P < 0.05). This lower ventilation was estimated (from HCVR) to be equivalent to an elevation of the central chemoreceptor PCO2 set point of 9.2 +/- 2.1 Torr on day 2 and 4.5 +/- 1.3 on day 12.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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