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Cerebral autoregulation and gas exchange studied using a human cardiopulmonary model

¹Dynamical Systems Group, Rice University, Houston 77005; ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston 77005; ³Department of Internal Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555; and ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, University Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030

Submitted 23 July 2003 ; accepted in final form 26 August 2003

The goal of this work is to study the cerebral autoregulation, brain gas exchange, and their interaction by means of a mathematical model. We have previously developed a model of the human cardiopulmonary (CP) system, which included the whole body circulatory system, lung and peripheral tissue gas exchange, and the central nervous system control of arterial pressure and ventilation. In this study, we added a more detailed description of cerebral circulation, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics, brain gas exchange, and cerebral blood flow (CBF) autoregulation. Two CBF regulatory mechanisms are included: autoregulation and CO₂ reactivity. Central chemoreceptor control of ventilation is also included. We first established nominal operating conditions for the cerebral model in an open-loop configuration using data generated by the CP model as inputs. The cerebral model was then integrated into the larger CP model to form a new integrated CP model, which was subsequently used to study cerebral hemodynamic and gas exchange responses to test protocols commonly used in the assessment of CBF autoregulation (e.g., carotid artery compression and the thigh-cuff deflation test). The model can closely mimic the experimental findings and provide biophysically based insights into the dynamics of cerebral autoregulation and brain tissue gas exchange as well as the mechanisms of their interaction during test protocols, which are aimed at assessing the degree of autoregulation. With further refinement, our CP model may be used on measured data associated with the clinical evaluation of the cerebral autoregulation and brain oxygenation in patients.

physiological modeling; thigh-cuff test; carotid artery compression

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