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The effects of hypertonic saline in healthy and diseased animals
1Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Belgium.
Veterinary Research Communications
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
In this review, the pharmacological effects of administering hypertonic solutions to both healthy animals and during experimentally induced diseases are considered with a view to understanding the mechanisms behind the possible clinical efficacy of such treatment. The review focuses successively on haemorrhagic shock, endotoxic shock and hypokalaemic metabolic alkalosis. How hypertonic saline solutions affect oxygen transport by haemoglobin is also considered.