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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 258: H1925-H1932, 1990;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 258, Issue 6 1925-H1932, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Measurement of mean circulatory filling pressure and vascular compliance in domestic pigs

R. I. Ogilvie, D. Zborowska-Sluis and B. Tenaschuk
Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada.

To measure mean circulatory filling pressure (Pmcf), a balloon was placed in the right atrium of seven pentobarbital sodium-anesthetized open-chest pigs for transient occlusion of flow combined with mechanical transfer of blood from the arterial to the venous circulation. Equilibration occurred within 6-8 s at a pressure at 12.3 +/- 0.3 (SE) mmHg after a 2.9 +/- 0.2 ml/kg transfer of blood. In another group of pentobarbital sodium-anesthetized closed-chest pigs, acetylcholine (ACh) was used to induce cardiac arrest. The Pmcf was 11.6 +/- 1.0 mmHg in the 7:17 pigs that arrested for 6-8 s. In four isoflurane-anesthetized closed-chest pigs, the Pmcf was 12.0 +/- 1.0 mmHg after terminal cardiac arrest induced by KCl. The pressure gradient for venous return [Pmcf--right atrial pressure (Pra)] averaged 5.9 +/- 0.2 mmHg. Total vascular compliance estimated from plots of Pmcf at base line, 5, and 10 ml/kg increases in circulating volume was 2.1 +/- 0.3 and 3.5 +/- 0.9 ml.kg-1.mmHg-1 in the balloon and ACh groups, respectively compared with 2.8 +/- 0.4 ml.kg-1.mmHg-1 using a volume infusion-withdrawal method without circulatory arrest. The use of ACh for the estimate of Pmcf in the pig is not recommended because of failure to consistently induce circulatory arrest and probable failure to achieve sufficient equilibrium of vascular pressures 6-8 s postarrest when it occurs.


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