{"title":"Neurological monitoring.","authors":"L F Marshall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intensive care of the patient who has acute brain injury has undergone major changes. Neurologic monitoring, particularly continuous recording of the intracranial pressure, appears to have contributed to an improved outcome in head-injured patients. Computerized axial tomographic scanning has revolutionized the diagnosis and serial assessment of the patient. Other techniques such as cerebral blood flow measurements, reflectance spectrophotometry, and sophisticated electrophysiologic recording are being utilized in the laboratory and in man as monitoring techniques. There utility and potential applications are discussed, and the present role of monitoring reviewed.</p>","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"8 ","pages":"219-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18031791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of bilateral nephrectomy on plasma fibronectin levels: its influence on acute fibronectin response to trauma and RE blockade.","authors":"E Cho, T M Saba","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plasma fibronectin is important to reticuloendothelial (RE) function and resistance to experimental shock. However, the factors that regulate its level have remained undefined. The present study evaluated the concept that the kidneys may play a role in the modulation of plasma fibronectin levels. Immunoreactive and opsonically active fibronectin in blood over a 28-hour period following bilateral nephrectomy was assessed in male rats (250-350 gm) by electroimmunoassay, peritoneal macrophage monolayer assay, and liver slice bioassay. Controls consisted of sham-operated rats. An acute 25%-30% fibronectin deficiency was detected within the initial 1-2 hours posttrauma in both experimental and control rats. Thereafter, a significant (P less than 0.05) increase in immunoreactive fibronectin developed by 24 hours which was much greater after bilateral nephrectomy as compared to controls (P less than 0.05). With the peritoneal macrophage assay or with the liver slice assay, the plasma or serum from bilateral nephrectomized rats has greater opsonic activity as compared to controls. This corresponded to increased hepatic RE phagocytic function in vivo after nephrectomy. In the 24-hour postnephrectomized rats, fibronectin decreased acutely after RE blockade or traumatic shock (NCD) indicating it was biologically active. These data suggest that the kidneys may participate in regulating the blood level of this protein, which has a role in reticuloendothelial system function and shock resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"8 ","pages":"99-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18152652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The patient with multiple organ system failure: immunologic monitoring.","authors":"C M Herman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The patient with multiple organ system failure is commonly suffering from the systemic effects of postsurgical or post-traumatic sepsis. An understanding of the role of the systems that mediate infection and produce much of the clinical picture is an important base for management and for future research. The use of the term \"immunity\" in relation to this process refers to two general response systems, which differ in some important aspects. The so-called cellular immune system, which embodies specific and preprogrammed responses, centers on the various populations of lymphocytes. Although there is considerable knowledge about their functional biology, this is perhaps more relevant to the transplantation and cancer areas than it is to trauma and surgical infection. Conversely, there is less known about the mediator systems, which seem to be more closely involved in the patient with multiple organ system failure. The relatively nonspecific responses of the circulating fixed macrophages, particularly granulocytes and monocytes, together with complement and other opsonins, clearly need considerable further investigation to define their critical role. This review attempts to outline common knowledge about the response systems that mediate systemic and organ failure in sepsis, and it points out certain areas that seem to hold promise for advances in the management of such patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"8 ","pages":"195-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18152727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vascular reactivity in endotoxin shock: effect of lidocaine or indomethacin pretreatment.","authors":"K Pomerantz, L Casey, J R Fletcher, P W Ramwell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effects of indomethacin or lidocaine pretreatment on vascular reactivity of endotoxin-shocked rats were examined, using the isolated rat aorta preparation. Contractility was examined in a randomized dose-response manner to both norepinephrine and the prostaglandin endoperoxide analog U-46619. One hour after endotoxin in vivo, there was maximal decrease in contractility to both U-46619 and to norepinephrine. Neither lidocaine nor indomethacin alone significantly altered the log dose-response curve to either agonist. Neither lidocaine nor indomethacin prior to endotoxin altered the log dose-response curve when compared to endotoxin treatment alone. These data indicate that the mechanism of protection afforded by both indomethacin and lidocaine in endotoxin shock models may be independent of the effect of endotoxin on vascular reactivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"7 ","pages":"191-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17806554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I H Chaudry, M G Clemens, M Ohkawa, S Schleck, A E Baue
{"title":"Restoration of hepatocellular function and blood flow following hepatic ischemia with ATP-MgCl2.","authors":"I H Chaudry, M G Clemens, M Ohkawa, S Schleck, A E Baue","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to determine whether hepatocellular function is altered following hepatic ischemia and whether ATP-MgCl2 has any effect on it. To study this, total hepatic ischemia in rats was produced for 60 minutes by placing a ligature around the hepatic artery, portal vein, and the common bile duct. At the end of the ischemic period, the ligature was removed, reestablishing blood flow to the liver. The animals then received IV either 0.25 ml saline (nontreated) or 0.25 ml ATP-MgCl2 (12.5 mumoles each) (treated). Three hours following the end of ischemia, indocyanine green (ICG) clearance was determined by infusing ICG at a concentration of either 5 mg/kg body wt (low) or 25 mg/kg body wt (high). Following infusion of ICG blood samples were taken at five, six, eight, ten, 12, 15, 18, and 20 minutes thereafter to determine the ICG concentration. The clearance of ICG at low as well as at high ICG concentration was markedly depressed in the nontreated animals, suggesting that significant depression in hepatic blood flow as well as hepatocellular function was evident even three hours after ischemia. Administration of ATP-MgCl2 following hepatic ischemia, however, resulted in ICG clearance values similar to sham-operated animals when ICG was given at low as well as high concentration. Thus, ATP-MgCl2 treatment following hepatic ischemia not only seemed to restore hepatic blood flow but also active membrane transport toward normal.</p>","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"8 ","pages":"177-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18152725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Shock. Marco Island, Florida, June 1981, Part 1.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"7 ","pages":"1-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18152804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D L Traber, T H Adair, T Adams, N Henriksen, L D Traber
{"title":"Is endotoxin responsible for the cardiopulmonary lesions seen during acute burn wound sepsis?","authors":"D L Traber, T H Adair, T Adams, N Henriksen, L D Traber","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute burn wound sepsis is a common clinical entity resulting from a showering of the circulation with gram-negative organisms which grow abundantly in the burn. We duplicate this state in our laboratory by creating 40%, third degree burns (anesthetic burns) in chronically instrumented sheep. Three days following the thermal insult, the burn wound is infected by injecting gram-negative organisms (3 X 10(10)) into it. Cardiopulmonary variables and pulmonary lymph flux data are monitored two hours prior to the injection of organisms and for three hours following it. Three different organisms were used in this study; Pseudomonas aeruginosa (N = 12), Escherichia coli (N = 9), and Klebsiella pneumoniae (N = 2). The injection of all three organisms resulted in a similar response; an early marked pulmonary hypertension and a late increase in microvascular permeability. These changes occur concomitantly with an elevation in hematocrit and an early marked fall in neutrophils. The cardiac output gradually falls over the period of observation despite vigorous body shivering associated with a febrile response. The data from the sheep were compared to similarly instrumented animals (N = 12) which were not burned, but received a very small dosage of E coli endotoxin (0.75 micrograms/kg). The cardiopulmonary response was qualitatively identical to that seen with live organisms. However, the quantitative changes in several of the cardiopulmonary variables were much more marked with endotoxin. It is concluded that the cardiopulmonary response noted with burn wound sepsis is produced by endotoxin.</p>","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"7 ","pages":"91-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17806322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T Sato, Y Kono, Y Shimahara, J Tanaka, R T Jones, R A Cowley, B F Trump
{"title":"The pathophysiology of septic shock: acute renal failure in rats following live E coli injection. A histochemical study of the proximal tubules.","authors":"T Sato, Y Kono, Y Shimahara, J Tanaka, R T Jones, R A Cowley, B F Trump","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute renal failure was induced in rats by injection of a lethal dose of live Escherichia coli. Enzyme activities of the proximal tubule were studied histochemically at three, six, and 12 hours following E coli injection. The enzymes examined were alkaline phosphatase (A1Pase), acid phosphatase (AcPase), adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase), and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH). At three hours, ATPase activity was slightly decreased, while other enzymes showed no changes in activities at this time. At six hours, a slight increase in AcPase activity was seen in the pars recta. At this time, although A1Pase showed no change in activity, other enzymes revealed slight decreases in activities: G6Pase and SDH in the pars convoluta, ATPase in the pars convoluta and pars recta, and G6PDH in pars recta. At 12 hours after treatment, all enzymes showed decreases in activities; however, no necrotic tubule changes were detectable by light microscopy. Since sodium reabsorption in proximal tubules requires a sodium pump consisting of Na-K ATPase, early histochemical changes in ATPase activity in proximal tubule following bacteremia may be related to early changes in sodium reabsorption causing polyuria and to the subsequent development of acute renal failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"7 ","pages":"61-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17353372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shock syndrome associated with mastocytosis: pharmacologic reversal of the acute episode and therapeutic prevention of recurrent attacks.","authors":"L J Roberts, J W Turk, J A Oates","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients with mastocytosis at times experience spontaneous episodes of severe flushing and vasodilatory shock. Antihistamine therapy has not been found to prevent uniformly the recurrence of such attacks or reverse the hypotension during the acute episode when given intravenously. We previously found marked overproduction of prostaglandin D2 in two patients with mastocytosis. This suggested the possibility that prostaglandin D2 may be an important mediator in addition to histamine in mastocytosis. We have now generalized our initial findings and have found an increased production of prostaglandin D2 ranging from 1.5-to 32.6-fold in eight additional patients with severe episodes of flushing associated with mastocytosis. In one of those patients, the release of prostaglandin D2 was found to increase approximately 81-fold during an attack of flushing. Without exception, chronic combined therapy with antihistamines and the prostaglandin biosynthesis inhibitor, aspirin, has successfully prevented the recurrence of such severe attacks in these patients, further implicating prostaglandin D2 as an important mediator. The immediate treatment of an acute hypotensive episode, however, represents a different therapeutic situation. We recently observed a severe hypotensive episode in a hospitalized patient with mastocytosis being treated with an H1 receptor antagonist alone. The hypotension was found to be refractory to intravenous fluids, dopamine, and antihistamines, but was immediately reversed by intravenous epinephrine. The self-administration of subcutaneous epinephrine during episodes of flushing in other patients has also been found to ameliorate the flushing rapidly. The apparent unique effectiveness of epinephrine in this situation may derive from an ability of epinephrine to inhibit mast-cell mediator release as a result of beta-adrenergic receptor activation.</p>","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"8 ","pages":"145-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18152723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac and hepatic pyruvate kinase isoenzymes in normal and diabetic dogs during endotoxic shock.","authors":"C Sharma, M S Liu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75453,"journal":{"name":"Advances in shock research","volume":"7 ","pages":"51-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17806319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}