Denitrogenation in pregnancy
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
- Vol. 36 (5) , 523-525
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03005379
Abstract
This study measured nitrogen washout in ten pregnant and nine non-pregnant women to understand better how pregnancy effects denitrogenation. Nitrogen concentration was monitored continuously while the women breathed 100 per cent O2 for three minutes and took four deep breaths of 100 per cent O2 using a circle anaesthesia system and 8 L·min−1 fresh gas flow. Parturients achieved 95 per cent denitrogenation significantly (P < 0.0005) faster than non-pregnant women (54.5 ± 17.8 vs 110.8 ± 35.7 sec). In parturients, denitrogenation for three minutes lowered expired N2 concentration to 1.0 ± 0.2 per cent while four deep breaths lowered it to 5.1 ± 1.7 per cent (P < 0.0001). This difference, while statistically significant, is predicted to supply only 10–15 sec of extra protection against hypoxaemia, and thus is probably not clinically significant. The authors conclude that either two minutes of tidal breathing or four deep breaths of 100 per cent O2 provide adequate denitrogenation and similar protection against apnoeic hypoxaemia in normal parturients. Pour mieux comprendre comment la grossesse influence l’élimination de l’azote, nous l’avons mesuré chez dix parturientes et neuf femmes-contróles. Nous mesurions constamment l’azote des gaz expirés alors que les sujets respiraient de l’oxygéne pur pendant trois minutes ou en prenaient quatre grandes inspirations dans un systéme respiratoire semi-fermi avec un débit de gaz frais de 8 L·min−1. L’élimination de 95 pour cent de l’azote était plus rapide chez les parturientes (54, 5 ± 17,8 vs 110,8 ± 35,7 sec., P ≤ 0.0005) et chez elles, trois minutes à respirer de l’oxygéne abaissaient l’azote des gaz expirés à 1,0 ± 0,2 pour cent alors qu’aprés quatre grandes inspirations, il en restait encore 5,1 ± 1,7 pour cent (P ≤0.0001). Cette derniere difference n’équivaut probablement qu’à 10 ou l5 secondes de protection contre l’hypoxemie. Donc, l’ oxygène pur pendant deux minutes en respiration normale ou lors de quatre inspirations profondes suffit à laver l’azote des poumons et offre aux parturientes normales le même degré de protection contre l’hypoxémie apnéique.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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