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The effects of primary thoracic blast injury and morphine on the response to haemorrhage in the anaesthetised rat.

Sawdon, Marina, Ohnishi, M, Watkins, P E and Kirkman, E (2002) The effects of primary thoracic blast injury and morphine on the response to haemorrhage in the anaesthetised rat. Experimental physiology, 87 (6). pp. 683-9. ISSN 0958-0670

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Abstract

Primary thoracic blast injury causes a triad of bradycardia, hypotension and apnoea mediated in part via a vagal reflex. Blast casualties may also suffer blood loss, and the response to progressive simple haemorrhage is biphasic: an initial tachycardia followed by a vagally mediated reflex bradycardia which can be attenuated by micro opioid agonists. The aims of this study were to determine the effects of thoracic blast injury on the response to subsequent haemorrhage, and the effects of morphine, administered after blast, on the response to blood loss. Male Wistar rats, terminally anaesthetised with alphadolone-alphaxolone (19-21 mg x kg(-1) h(-1) I.V.), were allocated randomly to one of three groups: Group I, sham blast; Group II, thoracic blast; Group III, thoracic blast plus morphine (0.5 mg x kg(-1) I.V. given 5 min after blast). Blast (Groups II and III) resulted in significant (P < 0.05, ANOVA) bradycardia, hypotension and apnoea. Sham blast (Group I) had no effect. Ten minutes later, haemorrhage (40 % of the estimated total blood volume (BV)) in Group I produced a biphasic response comprising a tachycardia followed by a peak bradycardia after the loss of 33 % BV. Arterial blood pressure did not fall significantly until the loss of 13.3 % BV. In Group II the haemorrhage-induced tachycardia was absent and the bradycardia was augmented: peak bradycardia was seen after the loss of 23 % BV. Mean arterial blood pressure (MBP) began to fall as soon as haemorrhage commenced and was significant after the loss of 10 % BV. Morphine (Group III) prevented the haemorrhage-induced bradycardia and delayed the significant fall in MBP until the loss of 30 % BV. It is concluded that the response to thoracic blast injury augments the depressor response to haemorrhage while morphine attenuates this response.

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Item ID: 8119
ISSN: 0958-0670
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/8119
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/eph8702...

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ORCID for Marina Sawdon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8668-257X

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Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2017 15:07
Last Modified: 18 Dec 2019 15:41

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Author: Marina Sawdon ORCID iD
Author: M Ohnishi
Author: P E Watkins
Author: E Kirkman

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Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Medicine

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