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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-7-10
pubmed:abstractText
The goals of management of patients with respiratory failure include improving arterial oxygenation with PEEP and red cell transfusion to maintain oxygen carrying capacity, both of which contribute to improving tissue oxygen delivery. However, standard CPD-stored blood is rapidly depleted of 2,3 diphosphoglycerate (2,3 DPG) and ATP, with resultant inadequacy of the red cell oxygen transport function. In 15 patients requiring mechanical ventilation with PEEP whose initial Hct less than or equal to 35%, we studied the effect of transfusion of 7 ml/kg of CPD-stored packed red blood cells on hemodynamic and oxygen delivery variables, pulmonary venous admixture (QA/QT), and erythrocytic P50, 2,3 DPG and ATP concentrations. Hemodynamics were not significantly altered by transfusion. 2,3 DPG decreased significantly from 14.5 +/- 1.1 to 13.1 +/- 1.5 mcmol/g Hb (mean +/- SD, p less than 0.05). There was no significant change in P50 or ATP. QA/QT rose significantly, from 20.1 +/- 7.8 to 28.9 +/- 12.3% (mean +/- SD, p less than 0.02). In our patients, an increase in arterial oxygen content obtained by transfusion was not followed by any associated decrease in cardiac work, as implied by solution of equations for oxygen delivery and oxygen consumption. The rise in QA/QT is undesirable in patients requiring PEEP, since it complicates management of their mechanical ventilatory support.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0342-4642
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
22-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Hemodynamic oxygen transport and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate changes after transfusion of patients in acute respiratory failure.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study