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Oxygen delivery and consumption in the microcirculation after extreme hemodilution with perfluorocarbons

¹Department of Bioengineering, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla 92093; ²La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, California 92037; and ³Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Submitted 9 December 2003 ; accepted in final form 26 February 2004

The oxygen transport capacity of fluorocarbons was investigated in the hamster chamber window model microcirculation to determine the rate at which oxygen is delivered to the tissue in conditions of extreme hemodilution [hematocrit (Hct) 11%]. Hydroxyethlyl starch (HES 200; 200 kDa molecular mass) was used as a plasma expander for two isovolemic hemodilutions performed with 10% HES 200 until a Hct of 65%. A third step reduced the Hct to 75% of baseline and was performed with either HES 200 or a 60% perfluorocarbon (PFC) emulsion. Comparisons of HES 200-only-hemodiluted animals versus 4.2 g/kg PFC emulsion-hemodiluted animals were made at 21% and 100% normobaric oxygen ventilation. It was found that systemic and microvascular oxygen delivery was 25% and 400% higher in the PFC animals compared with HES 200 animals, respectively, showing that PFCs deliver oxygen to the tissue when combined with hyperoxic ventilation in the present experiments, with no evidence of vasoconstriction or impaired microvascular function. Oxygen ventilation (100%) led to a positive base excess for the PFC group (5.5 ± 2.5 mmol/l) versus a negative balance (–0.8 ± 1.4 mmol/l) for the HES 200 group, suggesting that microvascular findings corresponded to systemic events.

hyperoxia; functional capillary density; oxygen-carrying capacity; blood substitutes; tissue oxygen delivery

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