Hypoxia as the Leading Pathogenetic Factor of Postresuscitative Cardiodepression

Abstract

The paper estimates the hypoxic sensitivity of isolated isovolumetrically contracting hearts of non-inbred albino male rats experiencing 4-min clinical death from acute blood loss. In the early postresuscitative period, the inhibited contractility of the myocardium and its increased hypoxic sensitivity has been ascertained to be due to impaired bioenergetics and activated lipid peroxidation processes. A four-fold pO2 reduction in the Krebs-Henseleit solution causes a more rapid and more marked development of myocardial contractures and oxygenized solution-induced reperfusion brings about greater myocardial damages.

Keywords

• clinical death
• resuscitation
• myocardial contractility and metabolism
• hypoxia