OXYGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE CONTENT OF ARTERIAL BLOOD BEFORE AND DURING SPINAL ANALGESIA

1949 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 677-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Latterell ◽  
John S. Lundy
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Spinal Analgesia ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Content ◽  
Arterial Blood

The Significance of the Bohr Effect in the Respiration and Asphyxiation of the Squid, Loligo Pealei

1929 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALFRED C. REDFIELD ◽  
ROBERT GOODKIND
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Toxic Effect ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Bohr Effect ◽  
Reciprocal Effects ◽  
Cent Oxygen ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Content ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Loligo Pealei

1. The oxygen and carbon-dioxide content of the arterial and venous blood of the squid, Loligo pealei, have been measured. 2. Using a nomographic method of analysis it is shown that the reciprocal effects of oxygen and carbon dioxide upon the respiratory properties of squid haemocyanin account for one-third of the respiratory exchange. 3. The venous blood is estimated to be 0.13 pH unit more acid than the arterial blood. 4. Death from asphyxiation occurs when the oxygen and carbon-dioxide pressures are such that the arterial blood can combine with only 0.5 to 1.5 volumes per cent, oxygen. Carbon dioxide exerts no toxic effect except through its influence on the oxygenation of the blood. 5. The haemocyanin of the blood is of vital necessity to the squid, because the amount of oxygen which can be physically dissolved in blood is less than the amount which is necessary for the maintenance of life.

scholarly journals THE OXYGEN CONTENT OF THE BLOOD IN LOBAR PNEUMONIA

1913 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis W. Peabody
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Oxygen Content ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Progressive Decrease ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Content ◽  
Lobar Pneumonia ◽  
Normal Limits ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Hemoglobin Molecule

In most cases of uncomplicated lobar pneumonia the decrease of respiratory surface is completely compensated for, and the oxygen content of the blood is within normal limits. Occasional cases of uncomplicated pneumonia have an oxygen content of the venous blood which is below normal. In the two cases reported here, this was associated with a carbon dioxide content of the blood which was higher than normally, and the condition was apparently due to an interference with the respiratory exchange of gases. In the terminal stage of the fatal cases of pneumonia in which death does not occur with great suddenness, there is often a progressive diminution in the oxygen content of the blood. Synchronous with this is a progressive decrease in the oxygen-combining capacity of the blood. These changes are usually seen in patients in whom an intense bacteremia has developed and are analogous to those found in the arterial blood of infected rabbits, and to those resulting from the growth of the pneumococcus in blood in vitro. In all three conditions there is probably a change of oxyhemoglobin to methemoglobin. This change of the hemoglobin molecule, so that it no longer takes up and gives off oxygen readily, is probably a factor in the immediate cause of death in many cases of pneumonia.

Some factors affecting the vago-vagal reflex

1961 ◽  
Vol 200 (5) ◽  
pp. 936-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Mohamed ◽  
W. Bakhoum ◽  
O. Zaki ◽  
K. Zaki ◽  
S. Yowakim
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Content ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Repeated Stimulation ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Vagal Reflex

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effect on duration of vagal asystole caused by changing the oxygen and carbon dioxide content of arterial blood. The pH of blood was determined in every experiment. It was proved that, in control animals, the duration of vagal asystole varied from dog to dog, but it was constant in each animal receiving repeated stimulation under the same conditions. A decrease in O2 content or an increase in CO2 content of arterial blood, or both, produced a longer period of asystole. The possible mechanisms are discussed.

Pulmonary arterial shunting in man during forward acceleration

1961 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1081-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheldon H. Steiner ◽  
Gustave C. E. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
Blood Gases ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Content ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Acceleration Period ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
The Individual

The arterial blood gases were determined during forward acceleration 90∘ to the acceleration vector at 6 g and 8 g breathing room air and at 8 g breathing 100% oxygen. Arterial saturation fell to 84% at 6 gand 75% at 8 g. Prebreathing O2 for 15 min prior to acceleration with continued inhalation during the acceleration plateau only partially corrected the undersaturation to 86% at 8 g. Recovery was not complete in 3 min unless O g therapy was used. Whole blood carbon dioxide content was depressed at 6 g and 8 g on room air, but this was corrected by O g inhalation. However, during the recovery period while breathing oxygen the carbon dioxide content was depressed. pH was reduced and pCO g elevated slightly during each acceleration period. Since cardiac output and alveolar ventilation have been reported to be essentially unaltered during forward acceleration at these magnitudes, the observed effects must represent substantial alterations in the individual ventilation to blood flow ratios throughout the lung, with approximately 50% of the cardiac output shunted through totally nonventilated areas at 8 g. There also must be some inadequately perfused or nonperfused peripheral areas, as evidenced by the fall in CO g content and pH and the accumulation of a substantial O g debt previously reported during acceleration. Note: With the Technical Assistance of Alice M. Caton and Justin L. Taylor, Jr. Submitted on June 12, 1961

Indications for measurement of total carbon dioxide in arterial blood.

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 1650-1652 ◽  
Author(s):  
G J Kost ◽  
J K Trent ◽  
D Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Blood Sampling ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Content ◽  
Arterial Blood Sampling ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Arterial Ph ◽  
Therapeutic Decisions ◽  
Technical Artifacts ◽  
Hasselbalch Equation

Abstract There is increasing evidence of variability in pK1', the practical dissociation coefficient used in the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation to calculate arterial bicarbonate from measurements of arterial pH and pco2. The case presented here illustrates not only potential technical artifacts in arterial blood sampling, which can confuse, but also irreconcilable differences in the values of calculated arterial bicarbonate vs measured arterial and venous total carbon dioxide (carbon dioxide content). Measurements of total carbon dioxide in arterial blood will resolve such conflicts, particularly for acutely ill patients, and will reflect the correct bicarbonate measurements for use in therapeutic decisions.

scholarly journals THE OXYGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE CONTENT OF ARTERIAL AND OF VENOUS BLOOD IN NORMAL INDIVIDUALS AND IN PATIENTS WITH ANEMIA AND HEART DISEASE

1919 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Harrop
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Oxygen Content ◽  
Normal Values ◽  
Normal Individual ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Content ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Percentage Saturation ◽  
Normal Individuals

1. The oxygen content of venous and of arterial blood from fifteen essentially normal individuals at rest in bed has been determined. 2. The percentage saturation of the arterial blood has varied between 100 and 94.3. The average is 95.5 per cent. 3. The oxygen consumption has varied between 2.6 and 8.3 volumes per cent. 4. The oxygen content and the percentage saturation of arterial blood taken at close intervals from three different peripheral arteries of a normal individual have shown values agreeing within the limits of error. Analyses of the blood gases of a normal individual, at rest and after exercise, have shown a lowering of the percentage oxygen saturation of the arterial blood and a diminished carbon dioxide content after exercise. 5. In three persons with severe anemia the saturation of the arterial blood has not differed from the normal. Very low absolute values were found for the oxygen content of the venous blood, but the normal oxygen consumption has been maintained. 6. The carbon dioxide content of the arterial blood from ten normal individuals has varied between 54.7 and 44.6 volumes per cent. That of the venous blood has varied between 60.4 and 48.3 volumes per cent. 7. No deviations from the normal values for oxygen and carbon dioxide were found in venous and arterial blood from cardiac patients without arrhytiunias, well compensated, and at rest in bed. 8. A series of determinations has been made upon nine cardiac patients with varying degrees of decompensation. The percentage oxygen saturation of the arterial blood on admission was abnormally low in seven of these cases. With the return to compensation and with the clearing up of pulmonary symptoms, the percentage saturation of the arterial blood returned to normal in four of them. 9. In a case of long standing mitral endocarditis with auricular fibrillation it remained low over a period of I month of observation. 10. In a case of chronic myocarditis secondary to emphysema and chronic bronchitis, it remained low over the period of observation. 11. Normal values for the percentage saturation of the arterial blood were found in two individuals with decompensated aortic disease but without physical signs of extensive pulmonary involvement. 12. The oxygen consumption tended to be high in individuals with cardiac disease during the periods of marked decompensation and to be lower as compensation was regained. 13. The data presented indicate that at least in many circulatory diseases during decompensation, particularly when there are physical signs of pulmonary congestion, there is a disturbance of the pulmonary exchange, as indicated by the lowering of the percentage saturation of the arterial blood with oxygen.

Application of Disk Aerators to Recarbonation of Alkaline Wastewater from Wet Gasification of Carbide

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Gomólka ◽  
B. Gomólka
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Liquid Phase ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Flue Gas ◽  
Carbonic Acid ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Flue Gases ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Content ◽  
Patent Claim ◽  
Phase Dispersion

Whenever possible, neutralization of alkaline wastewater should involve low-cost acid. It is conventional to make use of carbonic acid produced via the reaction of carbon dioxide (contained in flue gases) with water according to the following equation: Carbon dioxide content in the flue gas stream varies from 10% to 15%. The flue gas stream may either be passed to the wastewater contained in the recarbonizers, or. enter the scrubbers (which are continually sprayed with wastewater) from the bottom in oountercurrent. The reactors, in which recarbonation occurs, have the ability to expand the contact surface between gaseous and liquid phase. This can be achieved by gas phase dispersion in the liquid phase (bubbling), by liquid phase dispersion in the gas phase (spraying), or by bubbling and spraying, and mixing. These concurrent operations are carried out during motion of the disk aerator (which is a patent claim). The authors describe the functioning of the disk aerator, the composition of the wastewater produced during wet gasification of carbide, the chemistry of recarbonation and decarbonation, and the concept of applying the disk aerator so as to make the wastewater fit for reuse (after suitable neutralization) as feeding water in acetylene generators.

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