Pf. Wouters et al., HEMODYNAMIC-CHANGES DURING INDUCTION OF ANESTHESIA WITH ELTANOLONE AND PROPOFOL IN DOGS, Anesthesia and analgesia, 81(1), 1995, pp. 125-131
The purpose of this study was to examine global and regional hemodynam
ic changes during induction of anesthesia with eltanolone, a new short
-acting steroid hypnotic, as compared to propofol, in chronically inst
rumented dogs. The effects on cardiac performance were assessed in six
animals. Renal and hepatic blood flows were examined in a separate st
udy including five animals. Two doses of each drug were investigated:
eltanolone 2.5 and 5 mg/kg and propofol 7.5 and 15 mg/kg. Left atrial
filling pressures and cardiac output were not affected by either drug.
Maximum rate of increase of left ventricular pressure decreased both
with eltanolone (-28% and -40% from awake control for the 2.5 and 5 mg
/kg doses, respectively) and with propofol (-19% and -30% from awake c
ontrols with 7.5 and 15 mg/kg, respectively). In contrast to propofol,
eltanolone preserved arterial blood pressure. Propofol lowered system
ic vascular resistance (-21% and -39% with the low and high dose, resp
ectively), and only slightly decreased left ventricular wall thickenin
g fraction (-16% and -21%). Eltanolone did not affect systemic vascula
r resistance but reduced the wall-thickening fraction dose-dependently
(-28% and -61%). Propofol, but not eltanolone, induced moderate coron
ary vasodilation. Hepatic arterial blood flow velocity decreased dose-
dependently (-21% and -64%) during eltanolone anesthesia whereas, in c
ontrast, it increased after propofol (+59% and +64%). Renal and portal
venous blood flows remained essentially unaltered from awake conditio
ns. Our data demonstrate that both propofol and eltanolone have cardio
depressant properties but differ with regard to their effects on perip
heral vascular tone. Systemic arterial vasodilation, as caused by prop
ofol, may prove more favorable to overall cardiac performance. Liver b
lood flow was also better preserved with propofol when compared to elt
anolone.