Abstract
Hemodilution is still one of the taken therapy in stroke due to increase in cardiac output and decrease in blood viscosity. However, it is not clear the effect of a decrease in oxygen carrying capacity on oxygen supplying to the brain. The aim of this study is to seek the effect of isovolemic hemodilution on oxygen supply. We observed RBC flow rate and oxygen tension pO2 on brain cortical arterioles by using closed cranial window, high-speed videomicroscopy and oxygen dependent quenching of phosphorescence technique. The result showed that RBC flow rate increased about four times from base line and pO2 values were kept within a arteliolar biological state (about a range from 70 to 90mmHg) until Hb was about 10g/dl, respectively. And more severe hemodilution made the both values decrease acutely. The results suggest the increase of RBC flow caused by isovolemic hemodilution keeps supplying oxygen to the brain cortex as low as Hb is 10g/dl.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1054-1057 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
| Volume | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |
| Event | A New Beginning for Human Health: Proceddings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Cancun, Mexico Duration: 2003 Sept 17 → 2003 Sept 21 |
Keywords
- Arterioles pO
- Brain cortex
- Cerebral blood flow
- Hemodilution
- Microcirculation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics