Hemodynamic Responses to Oxygen Breathing in Children with Severe Anemia

Hemodynamic responses to oxygen breathing in children with severe anemia.

Hemodynamic responses to 100% oxygen inhalation were examined in seven anemic children (hemoglobin 1.9 to 3.8 g/100 ml blood; hematocrit 9 to 14%). During air breathing mean values for cardiac index were 7.71 L/min/m2, for heart rate 129/min, for stroke index 61.7 ml/m2, and for systemic vascular resistance 11.5 R.U. Oxygen administration significantly decreased mean values of cardiac index to ...

Cardiovascular function in children with severe anemia.

We investigated the hemodynamic status of seven children (aged 7 months to 14 years) with severe iron-deficiency anemia or anemia due to renal disease before and after the anemias were corrected by isovolumetric exchange transfusions. In the anemic state (Hb 1.9 to 3.8 g/100 ml) mean values for cardiac index were 7.71 L/min/m2, for heart rates 129/min, for stroke index 61.7 ml/m2, for diastolic...

Hemodynamic Effects of Chronic Severe Anemia.

CARDIOVASCULAR adjustments in chronic severe anemia have been the subject of several studies,1-'5 few dealing specifically with the hemodynamic aspects.10-15 In this communication we report our observations on the cardiac output and circulatory dynamics in chronic severe anemia and the hemodynamic response to the correction of the anemia. This study was undertaken in an attempt to answer the fo...

Severe anemia in Malawian children.

Hemodynamic Consequences of Oxygen Breathing in Left Ventricular Failure

O XY(;EN breatfiijl, is a-i\-olait(dt iin thl treatme::lt of eongnstx 1eiart failu-reS even in the absence of evanosis: howxever, oxv gen breathing decreases thie hTart rate andml cardiac outpput of restirgy iniormi-ial mn--li-,end of normlal meii undier certain othfi1 o01l(liti{ It is of interest. therefore, to kniow nI othe the already inadeqluate cardiae output of lefl heart failure is furth...