Affiliation:
1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md.
Abstract
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation with external chest compression generates low perfusion pressures that may be inadequate for restoring cerebral metabolism and may worsen intracellular pH. We tested the hypothesis that cerebral reperfusion with a low perfusion pressure after arrest restores brain adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and pH to levels attained at the same perfusion pressure without preceding complete ischemia.
Brain ATP and intracellular pH were measured by magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and cerebral blood flow was measured with microspheres in anesthetized dogs. External chest compressions were begun in group A (n = 6) immediately after the onset of arrest (ie, arrest time zero) and in group B (n = 10) after 6 minutes of arrest (ie, arrest time 6 minutes). In both groups, mean cerebral perfusion pressure was regulated at 30 mm Hg for 70 minutes by adjustment of inflation pressure of a pneumatic thoracic vest.
At 12 minutes of resuscitation, cerebral blood flow was 27 +/- 4 mL/min per 100 g in group A and 21 +/- 4 mL/min per 100 g in group B, but ATP in group B (58 +/- 10% of prearrest) was less than in group A (105 +/- 6%). With prolonged resuscitation, ATP deteriorated to near zero levels in dogs in group B, with blood flow less than 15 mL/min per 100 g. Dogs with greater blood flow never achieved complete metabolic recovery. In group B, intracellular pH was unchanged from the 6.3 value at the start of resuscitation, even in those dogs with extremely low blood flows.
Levels of cerebral perfusion pressure sufficient to maintain cerebral oxidative metabolism without complete ischemia during cardiopulmonary resuscitation are not sufficient to restore metabolism after complete ischemia during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. However, low "trickle" blood flow did not worsen intracellular acidosis.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Advanced and Specialized Nursing,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Neurology (clinical)
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