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Artur Udelsmann1, Matheus Rodrigues Bonfim, William Adalberto Silva
1Department of Anesthesiology and Laboratory of Experimental Anesthesia, School of Medicine, UNICAMP, Sao Paulo, Brazil. audelsmann@yahoo.com.br
Purpose:
To investigate hemodynamic response to volume replacement with saline solution and hypertonic hydroxyethyl starch in hypovolemic dogs.
Methods:
Forty dogs under general anesthesia and hemodynamic monitoring, following measurements at baseline, were bled 20 ml x Kg(-1) and parameters were measured again after 10 minutes. The animals were randomly divided in two groups and volume replacement was performed with saline solution twice the volume removed or 4 ml x Kg(-1) of hypertonic hydroxyethyl starch. Hemodynamic data were again measured after 5, 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes.
Results:
With both solutions values returned to satisfactory hemodynamic levels. With saline solution, there was a greater amplitude in variations that tended to decrease progressively. With hypertonic hydroxyethyl starch, the parameters studied returned more rapidly to levels similar to those at baseline and varied less.
Conclusion:
Both solutions proved to be efficient at replacing volume in the short period studied, although hypertonic hydroxyethyl starch produced more stable results.
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