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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 232: H35-H43, 1977;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 232, Issue 1 35-H43, Copyright © 1977 by American Physiological Society

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Cardiovascular effects of increasing airway pressure in the dog

S. M. Scharf, P. Caldini and R. H. Ingram Jr

In paralyzed anesthetized dogs the cardiovascular effects of increasing positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) were explored under two conditions: a) end-expiratory lung volume increasing, b) end-expiratory lung volume kept nearly constant by matching pleural pressure rise to end-expiratory airway pressure rise. Two series of experiments were done: I) xenous return was allowed to fall, II) venous return was kept constant by infusion of volume. Right atrial pressure, pulmonary arterial pressure, and left atrial pressure increased under all conditions when measured relative to atmospheric pressure, but increased relative to pleural pressure only under condition a. The rise in left atrial relative to pleural pressure may indicate a degree of left ventricular dysfunction associated with increasing end-expiratory lung volume. Furthermore, when end-expiratory lung volume increased, inequality of the rise in pulmonary artery wedge pressure exceeded the rise in left atrial pressure in series I. From plots of cardiac output as a function of right atrial pressure it was possible to conclude that the decrease in venous return is partially offset by an increase in mean circulatory pressure.


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