M. Nalos et al., Arterial and mixed venous xenon blood concentrations in pigs during wash-in of inhalational anaesthesia, BR J ANAEST, 87(3), 2001, pp. 497-498
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Aneshtesia & Intensive Care","Medical Research Diagnosis & Treatment
There are no data available on the kinetics of blood concentrations of xeno
n during the washin phase of an inhalation anaesthesia aiming at I MAC end-
expiratory concentration. Therefore, we anaesthetized eight pigs with conti
nuous propofol and fentanyl and measured arterial, mixed venous and end-exp
iratory xenon concentrations by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60 and 120 min after starting the anaesthetic g
as mixture [67% xenon/33% oxygen; 3 litre min(-1) during the first 10 min,
thereafter minimal flow with 0.48 (SD 0.03) litre min(-1)]. End-expiratory
xenon concentrations plateaued (defined as <5% change from the preceding va
lue) at 64 (6) vol% after 7 min, and arterial and mixed venous xenon concen
trations after 5 and IS min respectively. The highest arterio-venous concen
tration difference occurred after 3 min. Using the Fick principle, we calcu
lated a mean xenon uptake of 3708 (829) and 9977 (3607) ml after 30 and 120
min respectively.