The effects of various hypertonic solutions on the intraventricular conduction, ventricular repolarization and the arrhythmias caused by the intravenous (iv) injection of bupivacaine (6.5 mg/kg) were studied in sodium pentobarbital-anesthetized mongrel dogs. Hypertonic solutions, given iv 5 min before bupivacaine, were 7.5% (w/v) NaCl, 5.4% (w/v) LiCl, 50% (w/v) glucose (2,400 mOsm/l, 5 ml/kg),...

INTRODUCTION. The literature has accumulated enough data on the treatment of children with acute bronchiolitis (OB). However, this information is formed mainly general population patients OB and often not applicable to a severe course disease. From standpoint evidence-based medicine, routine use medications recommended in modern consent documents, there are also no clear recommendations respira...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hypertonic saline (3% NaCl) infusions can be used to treat acute neurologic hyponatremia (ANH) in critically ill patients with neurological and neurosurgical disorders such as subarachnoid hemorrhage. Adjustments in the rate of hypertonic saline infusions to treat ANH are needed to achieve a goal sodium range and are usually made on an empiric basis. To date, no data are ...

PURPOSE Cultured bovine lens epithelial cells (BLECs) exposed to sodium hypertonicity respond with an accumulation of intracellular myo-inositol. Using BLECs initially maintained at hypertonicity and reacting to a decrease in medium osmolality, a mechanism for the tonicity-activated release of myo-inositol was recognized. Alternatively, BLECs acclimated to sodium hypertonicity and subsequently ...

The combined effect of oral nifedipine and aerosolized sodium cromoglycate on the airway response to inhaled sodium chloride at increasing concentrations was randomly studied in 10 patients with bronchial asthma. Nifedipine (20 mg) protected the airways in 6 of the 10 patients, and sodium cromoglycate (20 mg) in all the 10 patients. Following both drugs, the airway response to hypertonic saline...

STUDY OBJECTIVES With renewed interest in intraosseous (IO) infusion, the present study examined if sternal IO infusion provided vascular entry of 7.5% NaCl/6% dextran-70 (HSD) as efficiently as IV infusion. DESIGN, SETTING, TYPE OF PARTICIPANTS, INTERVENTIONS: Twelve anesthetized pigs were catheterized for measurement of cardiovascular parameters. Six pigs were given a 4-mL/kg IO infusion of H...

BACKGROUND Sputum induction by hypertonic saline solution inhalation is widely used to study airways secretions in patients with asthma. However, hypertonic saline solution is a potent indirect bronchoconstrictor. STUDY OBJECTIVES We studied the validity of isotonic saline solution (0.9%) inhalation as a means to induce sputum by comparing it to hypertonic saline solution (4.5%) inhalation. ...

BACKGROUND Cervical central stenosis (CCS) is a narrowing of the spinal canal that can cause mechanical compression of the spinal nerve and roots, leading to neck pain and/or radicular pain. Cervical epidural steroid injections are commonly used in the treatment of CCS. After failure of epidural steroid injections, the next sequential step is percutaneous adhesiolysis with a targeted drug deliv...

AIM We determined the role of brain Gαi2 proteins in mediating the neural and humoral responses of conscious male Sprague-Dawley rats to acute peripheral sodium challenge. METHODS Rats pre-treated (24-h) intracerebroventricularly with a targeted oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) (25 μg per 5 μL) to downregulate brain Gαi2 protein expression or a scrambled (SCR) control ODN were challenged with an ac...