scholarly journals Continuous Monitoring of Changes in Blood Volume and Limb Volume During Lower Body Negative Pressure

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-245
Author(s):  
Fumio YAMAZAKI ◽  
Keizo SHIRAKI ◽  
Yutaka ENDO ◽  
Sueko SAGAWA
NeuroImage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 166-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Whittaker ◽  
Molly G. Bright ◽  
Ian D. Driver ◽  
Adele Babic ◽  
Sharmila Khot ◽  
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1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Ligtenberg ◽  
P J Blankestijn ◽  
H A Koomans

Sudden dialysis-related hypotension is characterized by paradoxical vasodilation, suggestive of sympathoinhibition. A similar hypotensive reaction can be evoked by lower body negative pressure (LBNP), which thus allows the study of the numerous factors involved in dialysis hypotension separately. This article examines the influence of changes in volume status on the hemodynamic response to LBNP (45 mmHg up to the iliac crest, maximum 60 min) in 12 healthy subjects. LBNP caused a decrease in cardiac index and pulse pressure, and an increase in heart rate and total peripheral resistance, most of which developed within the first 3 min of LBNP. Six subjects developed sudden hypotension characterized by vasodilation after 9 +/- 4 min of LBNP. After saline expansion (25 ml/kg), which increased blood volume by approximately 8%, five subjects endured LBNP for the full 60 min. However, after 60 min of LBNP, the circulatory parameters suggested a similar critical situation as that observed before presyncope in their first experiment. The other six subjects endured the full 60 min of LBNP. After furosemide-induced volume reduction associated with 1.6 +/- 0.2 kg weight loss and approximately 7% blood volume reduction, five of them developed vasodilatory presyncope after 17 +/- 5 min of LBNP. Comparison of presyncopal and nonpresyncopal experiments within subjects, as well as between subjects, showed that the early (3 min) response to LBNP was different: Despite similar decreases in cardiac index, the values for systolic pressure, pulse pressure, peripheral resistance, and stroke volume were lower, and the heart rate was higher in the experiments ending in presyncope. It is concluded that the volume status is a determinant of the tolerance to LBNP, probably by affecting the vasoconstrictive response. By inference, this study suggests that the vasoconstrictive response to the hemodynamic stress of hemodialysis is also influenced by the volume status.


2019 ◽  
Vol 316 (3) ◽  
pp. H609-H616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Elyse Schlotman ◽  
Kevin S. Akers ◽  
Shawn C. Nessen ◽  
Victor A. Convertino

Women generally display lower tolerance to acute central hypovolemia than men. The measurement of compensatory reserve (CRM) is a novel metric that provides information about the sum total of all mechanisms that together work to compensate for the relative blood volume deficit. Hemodynamic decompensation occurs with depletion of the CRM (i.e., 0% CRM). In the present study, we hypothesized that the lower tolerance to progressive central hypovolemia reported in women can be explained by a faster reduction rate in CRM compared with men rather than sex differences in absolute integrated compensatory responses. Continuous, noninvasive measures of CRM were collected from 208 healthy volunteers (107 men and 85 women) who underwent progressive stepwise central hypovolemia induced by lower body negative pressure to the point of presyncope. Comparisons revealed shorter ( P < 0.01) times in female participants compared with male participants to reach 30% and 0% CRM. Similarly, the lower body negative pressure level, represented by the cumulative stress index, was less at 30% and 0% CRM in women compared with men ( P < 0.01). Changes in hemodynamic responses and frequency-domain data (oscillations in cerebral blood flow velocity and mean arterial blood pressure) were similar between men and women at 0% CRM ( P > 0.05). We conclude that compensatory responses to central hypovolemia in women were similar to men but were depleted at a faster rate compared with men. The earlier depletion of the compensatory reserve in women appears to be influenced by failure to maintain adequate cerebral oxygen delivery. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We compared hemodynamic and metabolic responses in men and women to experimentally controlled reductions in central blood volume at physiologically equivalent levels of compensatory reserve. We corroborated previous findings that females have lower tolerance to central hypovolemia than males but demonstrated for the first time that compensatory responses are similar. Our findings suggest lower tolerance to central hypovolemia in women results from reaching critical cerebral delivery of oxygen faster than men.


2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indu Taneja ◽  
Chistopher Moran ◽  
Marvin Scott Medow ◽  
Julian M. Stewart

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin A Dias ◽  
Christopher M Hearon ◽  
Gautam Babu ◽  
John E Marshall ◽  
James P Macnamara ◽  
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Introduction: During space flight and ground based simulations of microgravity, transmural distending pressure increases in resistance vessels above the level of the heart, causing maladaptive vascular remodeling over time. Lower body negative pressure (LBNP) mimics gravity by redistributing blood volume and reinstating hydrostatic gradients, and may preserve vascular structures above the heart while in microgravity. Methods: Ten healthy subjects (5 female, 29 ± 9 years) completed three days of supine (0°) bed rest with and without eight hours of nightly LBNP (-20mmHg) in a randomized, crossover design. Area and volume of the choroid, a highly vascularized layer of the eye sensitive to changes in hydrostatic gradients, were assessed using optical coherence tomography on the first and last day of bed rest. Central venous pressure (CVP) was measured during spontaneous breathing with a peripherally inserted central catheter. Results: CVP increased significantly from the seated to supine position (+9.1 ± 2.4mmHg, P < 0.001), leading to choroid engorgement over three days of supine bed rest (choroid area: +0.09 mm 2 95% CI 0.04 to 0.13, P = 0.0014; choroid volume: +0.37 mm 3 95% CI 0.19 to 0.55, P = 0.0011). Nightly LBNP caused a sustained reduction in supine CVP (5.7 ± 2.2mmHg to 1.2 ± 1.4mmHg, P < 0.001), indicating effective redistribution of blood volume and significantly attenuated the increase in choroid area (3.5% control vs. 0.9% LBNP, P = 0.0164) and volume (3.8% control vs. 1.8% LBNP, P = 0.0040) compared to control (Figure). Conclusions: Nightly LBNP caused caudal redistribution of blood volume that partially reinstated hydrostatic gradients and mitigated the increase in choroid area and volume by 74% and 53%, respectively. These findings illustrate that normalizing transmural distending pressures during simulated microgravity preserves vascularized structures above the level of the heart and may prevent adverse remodeling during long duration spaceflight.


2010 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 996-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hachiya ◽  
M. L. Walsh ◽  
M. Saito ◽  
A. P. Blaber

Central blood volume loss to venous pooling in the lower extremities and vasoconstrictor response are commonly viewed as key factors to distinguish between individuals with high and low tolerance to orthostatic stress. In this study, we analyzed calf vasoconstriction as a function of venous pooling during simulated orthostatic stress. We hypothesized that high orthostatic tolerance (OT) would be associated with greater vasoconstrictor responses to venous pooling compared with low OT. Nineteen participants underwent continuous stepped lower body negative pressure at −10, −20, −30, −40, −50, and −60 mmHg each for 5 min or until exhibiting signs of presyncope. Ten participants completed the lower body negative pressure procedure without presyncope and were categorized with high OT; the remaining nine were categorized as having low OT. Near-infrared spectroscopy measurements of vasoconstriction (Hachiya T, Blaber A, Saito M. Acta Physiologica 193: 117–127, 2008) in calf muscles, along with heart rate (HR) responses for each participant, were evaluated in relation to calf blood volume, estimated by plethysmography. The slopes of this relationship between vasoconstriction and blood volume were not different between the high- and low-tolerance groups. However, the onset of vasoconstriction in the high-tolerance group was delayed. Greater HR increments in the low-tolerance group were also observed as a function of lower limb blood pooling. The delayed vasoconstriction and slower HR increments in the high-tolerance group to similar venous pooling in the low group may suggest a greater vascular reserve and possible delayed reduction in venous return.


2017 ◽  
Vol 242 (8) ◽  
pp. 874-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia M Schiller ◽  
Jeffrey T Howard ◽  
Victor A Convertino

The ability to quickly diagnose hemorrhagic shock is critical for favorable patient outcomes. Therefore, it is important to understand the time course and involvement of the various physiological mechanisms that are active during volume loss and that have the ability to stave off hemodynamic collapse. This review provides new insights about the physiology that underlies blood loss and shock in humans through the development of a simulated model of hemorrhage using lower body negative pressure. In this review, we present controlled experimental results through utilization of the lower body negative pressure human hemorrhage model that provide novel insights on the integration of physiological mechanisms critical to the compensation for volume loss. We provide data obtained from more than 250 human experiments to classify human subjects into two distinct groups: those who have a high tolerance and can compensate well for reduced central blood volume (e.g. hemorrhage) and those with low tolerance with poor capacity to compensate.We include the conceptual introduction of arterial pressure and cerebral blood flow oscillations, reflex-mediated autonomic and neuroendocrine responses, and respiration that function to protect adequate tissue oxygenation through adjustments in cardiac output and peripheral vascular resistance. Finally, unique time course data are presented that describe mechanistic events associated with the rapid onset of hemodynamic failure (i.e. decompensatory shock). Impact Statement Hemorrhage is the leading cause of death in both civilian and military trauma. The work submitted in this review is important because it advances the understanding of mechanisms that contribute to the total integrated physiological compensations for inadequate tissue oxygenation (i.e. shock) that arise from hemorrhage. Unlike an animal model, we introduce the utilization of lower body negative pressure as a noninvasive model that allows for the study of progressive reductions in central blood volume similar to those reported during actual hemorrhage in conscious humans to the onset of hemodynamic decompensation (i.e. early phase of decompensatory shock), and is repeatable in the same subject. Understanding the fundamental underlying physiology of human hemorrhage helps to test paradigms of critical care medicine, and identify and develop novel clinical practices and technologies for advanced diagnostics and therapeutics in patients with life-threatening blood loss.


2007 ◽  
Vol 292 (3) ◽  
pp. H1420-H1426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indu Taneja ◽  
Christopher Moran ◽  
Marvin S. Medow ◽  
June L. Glover ◽  
Leslie D. Montgomery ◽  
...  

Upright posture and lower body negative pressure (LBNP) both induce reductions in central blood volume. However, regional circulatory responses to postural changes and LBNP may differ. Therefore, we studied regional blood flow and blood volume changes in 10 healthy subjects undergoing graded lower-body negative pressure (−10 to −50 mmHg) and 8 subjects undergoing incremental head-up tilt (HUT; 20°, 40°, and 70°) on separate days. We continuously measured blood pressure (BP), heart rate, and regional blood volumes and blood flows in the thoracic, splanchnic, pelvic, and leg segments by impedance plethysmography and calculated regional arterial resistances. Neither LBNP nor HUT altered systolic BP, whereas pulse pressure decreased significantly. Blood flow decreased in all segments, whereas peripheral resistances uniformly and significantly increased with both HUT and LBNP. Thoracic volume decreased while pelvic and leg volumes increased with HUT and LBNP. However, splanchnic volume changes were directionally opposite with stepwise decreases in splanchnic volume with LBNP and stepwise increases in splanchnic volume during HUT. Splanchnic emptying in LBNP models regional vascular changes during hemorrhage. Splanchnic filling may limit the ability of the splanchnic bed to respond to thoracic hypovolemia during upright posture.


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