Abstract
The effect of hypo- and hypercapnia—induced by changing the respiratory gas mixture—on coronary flow and myocardial oxygen consumption was observed at constant cardiac output and over a broad range of pressure-loads in open-chested, anesthetized dogs. The correlation of cardiac effort (as indexed by the product of heart rate and mean aortic blood pressure) with myocardial oxygen consumption was not altered by increasing or decreasing the arterial CO2 content. Coronary blood flow was observed to be increased relative to the cardiac effort during hypercapnia but not during hypocapnia. The coronary arteriovenous oxygen difference and the percentage of oxygen extracted decreased during hypercapnia pari passu with the increase in venous oxygen content.
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