• R J Houmes, A Hartog, S J Verbrugge, S Böhm, and B Lachmann.
• Department of Anesthesiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• Intensive Care Med. 1997 Feb 1; 23 (2): 163-9.

ObjectiveTo assess the effects of increasing concentrations of inhaled nitric oxide (NO) during incremental dosages of partial liquid ventilation (PLV) on gas exchange, hemodynamics, and oxygen transport in pigs with induced acute lung injury (ALI).DesignProspective experimental study.SettingExperimental intensive care unit of a university.Subjects6 pigs with induced ALI.InterventionsAnimals were surfactant-depleted by lung lavage to a partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood (PaO2) < 100 mmHg. They then received four incremental doses of 5 ml/kg perflubron (Liqui-Vent). Between each dose the animals received 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 0 parts per million (ppm) NO.Measurements And Main ResultsBlood gases, hemodynamic parameters, and oxygen delivery were measured after each dose of perflubron as well as after each NO concentration. Perflubron resulted in a dose-dependent increase in PaO2. At each perflubron dose, additional NO inhalation resulted in a further significant (ANOVA, p < 0.05) increase in PaO2, with a maximum effect at 30 +/- 10 ppm NO. The 5 ml/kg perflubron dose led to a significant decrease in mean pulmonary artery pressure, which decreased further with higher NO concentrations.ConclusionsPLV can be combined with NO administration and results in a cumulative effect on arterial oxygenation and to a decrease in pulmonary artery pressure, without having any deleterious effect on measured systemic hemodynamic parameters.

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