Reference Cardiopulmonary Values in Normal Dogs

Authors: Haskins, Steve¹; Pascoe, Peter J.¹; Ilkiw, Jan E.¹; Fudge, James²; Hopper, Kate¹; Aldrich, Janet³

Source: Comparative Medicine, Volume 55, Number 2, April 2005 , pp. 156-161(6)

Publisher: American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

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The purpose of this project was to collate canine cardiopulmonary measurements from published and unpublished studies in our laboratory in 97 instrumented, unsedated, normovolemic dogs. Body weight; arterial and mixed-venous pH and blood gases; mean arterial, pulmonary arterial, pulmonary artery occlusion, and central venous blood pressures; cardiac output; heart rate; hemoglobin; and core temperature were measured. Body surface area; bicarbonate concentration; base deficit; cardiac index; stroke volume index, systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance indices; left and right cardiac work indices; alveolar partial pressure of oxygen (pO₂); alveolar-arterial pO₂ gradient (A-a pO₂); arterial, mixed-venous, and pulmonary capillary oxygen content; oxygen delivery; oxygen consumption; oxygen extraction; venous admixture; arterial and mixed-venous blood CO₂ contents; and CO₂ production were calculated. In the 97 normal, resting dogs, mean arterial and mixed-venous pH were 7.38 and 7.36, respectively; partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO₂), 40.2 and 44.1 mm Hg, respectively; base-deficit, -2.1 and -1.9 mEq/liter, respectively; pO₂, 99.5 and 49.3 mm Hg, respectively; oxygen content, 17.8 and 14.2 ml/dl, respectively; A-a pO₂ was 6.3 mm Hg; and venous admixture was 3.6%. The mean arterial blood pressure (ABPm), mean pulmonary arterial blood pressure (PAPm), pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP) were 103, 14, and 5.5 mm Hg, respectively; heart rate was 87 beats/min; cardiac index (CI) was 4.42 liters/min/m²; systemic and pulmonary vascular resistances were 1931 and 194 dynes·sec·cm⁻⁵, respectively; oxygen delivery, consumption and extraction were 790 and 164 ml/min/m² and 20.5%, respectively. This study represents a collation of cardiopulmonary values obtained from a large number of dogs (97) from a single laboratory using the same measurement techniques.

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Affiliations: 1: University of California-Davis, Department of Surgery and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, California 95616 2: United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, Veterinary Support Branch, Research Division, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas 78234-6315 3: University of California-Davis, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, California 95616

Publication date: 2005-04-01

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Comparative Medicine (CM), an international journal of comparative and experimental medicine, is the leading English-language publication in the field and is ranked by the Science Citation Index in the upper third of all scientific journals. The mission of CM is to disseminate high-quality, peer-reviewed information that expands biomedical knowledge and promotes human and animal health through the study of laboratory animal disease, animal models of disease, and basic biologic mechanisms related to disease in people and animals.

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