Abstract
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the behavior of the venous-to-arterial CO2 tension difference (ΔPCO2) over the arterial-to-venous oxygen content difference (ΔO2) ratio (ΔPCO2/ΔO2) and the difference between venous-to-arterial CO2 content calculated with the Douglas’ equation (ΔCCO2D) over ΔO2 ratio (ΔCCO2D/ΔO2) and their abilities to reflect the occurrence of anaerobic metabolism in two experimental models of tissue hypoxia: ischemic hypoxia (IH) and hypoxic hypoxia (HH). We also aimed to assess the influence of metabolic acidosis and Haldane effects on the PCO2/CO2 content relationship. In a vascularly isolated, innervated dog hindlimb perfused with a pump-membrane oxygenator system, the oxygen delivery (DO2) was lowered in a stepwise manner to decrease it beyond critical DO2 (DO2crit) by lowering either arterial PO2 (HH-model) or flow (IH-model). Twelve anesthetized and mechanically ventilated dogs were studied, 6 in each model. Limb DO2, oxygen consumption ({dot{text{V}}text{O}}_{2}), ΔPCO2/ΔO2, and ΔCCO2D/ΔO2 were obtained every 15 min. Beyond DO2crit, {dot{text{V}}text{O}}_{2} decreased, indicating dysoxia. ΔPCO2/ΔO2, and ΔCCO2D/ΔO2 increased significantly only after reaching DO2crit in both models. At DO2crit, ΔPCO2/ΔO2 was significantly higher in the HH-model than in the IH-model (1.82 ± 0.09 vs. 1.39 ± 0.06, p = 0.002). At DO2crit, ΔCCO2D/ΔO2 was not significantly different between the two groups (0.87 ± 0.05 for IH vs. 1.01 ± 0.06 for HH, p = 0.09). Below DO2crit, we observed a discrepancy between the behavior of the two indices. In both models, ΔPCO2/ΔO2 continued to increase significantly (higher in the HH-model), whereas ΔCCO2D/ΔO2 tended to decrease to become not significantly different from its baseline in the IH-model. Metabolic acidosis significantly influenced the PCO2/CO2 content relationship, but not the Haldane effect. ΔPCO2/ΔO2 was able to depict the occurrence of anaerobic metabolism in both tissue hypoxia models. However, at very low DO2 values, ΔPCO2/ΔO2 did not only reflect the ongoing anaerobic metabolism; it was confounded by the effects of metabolic acidosis on the CO2–hemoglobin dissociation curve, and then it should be interpreted with caution.
Highlights
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the behavior of the venous-to-arterial CO2 tension difference (ΔPCO2) over the arterial-to-venous oxygen content difference (ΔO2) ratio (ΔPCO2/ΔO2) and the difference between venous-to-arterial CO2 content calculated with the Douglas’ equation (ΔCCO2D) over ΔO2 ratio (ΔCCO2D/ΔO2) and their abilities to reflect the occurrence of anaerobic metabolism in two experimental models of tissue hypoxia: ischemic hypoxia (IH) and hypoxic hypoxia (HH)
For the lower D O2 values, S vO2 was significantly higher in the IH model than in the HH group (Supplemental Digital Content 4, Figure S2). EO2 at DO2Crit was significantly higher in the IH group than in the HH model (74 ± 2% vs. 60 ± 4%, p = 0.01) and increased continuously and in both groups (Supplemental Digital Content 5, Figure S3)
Groups; (3) metabolic acidosis, but not Haldane effect influenced significantly the PCO2/CCO2 relationship explaining the discrepancy between ∆PCO2 and ΔCCO2D; (4) the method of C CO2 calculation had a considerable impact on the results and yielded different conclusions
Summary
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the behavior of the venous-to-arterial CO2 tension difference (ΔPCO2) over the arterial-to-venous oxygen content difference (ΔO2) ratio (ΔPCO2/ΔO2) and the difference between venous-to-arterial CO2 content calculated with the Douglas’ equation (ΔCCO2D) over ΔO2 ratio (ΔCCO2D/ΔO2) and their abilities to reflect the occurrence of anaerobic metabolism in two experimental models of tissue hypoxia: ischemic hypoxia (IH) and hypoxic hypoxia (HH). DO2crit, we observed a discrepancy between the behavior of the two indices In both models, ΔPCO2/ΔO2 continued to increase significantly (higher in the HH-model), whereas ΔCCO2D/ΔO2 tended to decrease to become not significantly different from its baseline in the IH-model. Gutierrez G has confirmed this conclusion in a mathematical model of tissue-to-blood CO2 exchange during hypoxia[2] In these previous publications, the behavior of ∆PCO2 over the arterial-to-venous oxygen content difference (ΔO2) ratio (ΔPCO2/ΔO2), and the difference between venous-to-arterial CO2 content (ΔCCO2) over ΔO2 ratio (ΔCCO2/ΔO2) in a model of progressive tissue hypoxia generated by reducing either flow [ischemic hypoxia (IH)] or arterial oxygen tension [hypoxic hypoxia (HH)], were not investigated[1,2]
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