Cerebral Function Monitoring in Rats with a Critical Hepatic Injury Treated with Pneumatic Antishock Garment and Infusion

An evaluation of the pneumatic anti-shock garment (pasg) in various clinical settings

“…A report of a porcine model of uncontrolled hemorrhage secondary to an abdominal aortic laceration demonstrated improved survival and decreased blood loss with PASG inflation to 60 mm Hg.72 Additional studies also demonstrated improved survival of abdominal uncontrolled hemorrhage with the PASG. [73][74][75][76] Studies with uncontrolled hemorrhage in areas not compressed by the PASG yield quite different results. A study of uncontrolled hemorrhage involving a descending thoracic aortic injury showed a significant increase in blood loss with the PASG inflation.…”

The impact of hypoxemia and/or hypotension on electrical brain activity as measured using the Maastricht cerebral monitor

“…In addition some authors proposed the use of CFAM amplitude patterns as a prognostic tool after hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy periods Hellström-Westas et al, 1995a,Thornberg andEkström-Jodal, 1994). Furthermore, the effects of hypoxia, ischaemia and anaesthetics on CFAM amplitude analysis have been studied using different animal models Aberg et al, 1989;Prior et al, 1978;Toner et al, 1995, Yuan et al, 1995. In our experiments, no burst-suppression activity was seen which means that halothane anaesthesia was appropriate.…”