Effect of Hypocapnia on Cardiac Output During Anesthesia
Open Access
- 1 November 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesiology
- Vol. 27 (6) , 778-782
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-196611000-00009
Abstract
Hemodynamic and blood gas studies were carried out during anesthesia and operation during hypocapnia and normocapnia in 9 patients. Without exception, cardiac output was greater during normocapnia than during hypocapnia. The available evidence suggests the presence of decreased myocardial contractility or distensibility, or both, during hypocapnia as compared to normocapnia. These myocardial changes are believed to result in major part from altered activity of the sympathetic nervous system.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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