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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 41, 525-530, Copyright © 1986 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Cerebral carbon dioxide reactivity during nonpulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass

T Lundar, KF Lindegaard, T Froysaker, A Grip, M Bergman, E Am-Holen and H Nornes

Five patients undergoing extensive cerebral monitoring during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) procedures were subjected to studies on cerebral CO2 reactivity during nonpulsatile CPB. The cerebral monitoring included recording of arterial blood pressure (BP), central venous pressure (CVP), epidural intracranial pressure (EDP), cerebral electrical activity by a cerebral function monitor (CFM), and middle cerebral artery (MCA) flow velocity by transcranial Doppler technique. The cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) was thus continuously recorded (CPP = BP - EDP). During steady-state CPB with constant hematocrit, temperature, and arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2), MCA flow velocity varied with changing CPP in a pressure-passive manner, indicating that the cerebral autoregulation was not operative. During moderately hypothermic (28 to 32 degrees C), nonpulsatile CPB, with steady-state hematocrit, temperature, and pump flow, we deliberately and rapidly changed PaCO2 for periods of 1 or 2 minutes by increasing gas flow to the membrane oxygenator, thereby testing the cerebral CO2 reactivity. Nineteen CO2 reactivity tests, performed at CPP levels ranging from 17 to 75 mm Hg, disclosed that the cerebral CO2 reactivity decreased with CPP, especially with CPP levels below 35 mm Hg. In these patients, concomitant changes in CPP during the CO2 reactivity test could be compensated for by adjusting the observed change in MCA flow velocity. The corrected CO2 reactivity values obtained in this way ranged from below 1.0 (observed at CPP levels below 20 mm Hg) to a 3.0 to 4.5% X mm Hg-1 change in PaCO2 (observed at CPP levels above 35 mm Hg).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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