“…Considering the known effects of severe hyperventilation on cerebral tissue oxygenation (reduction of oxygen pressure in cerebral tissue from 40 to 10 mmHg) (19)(20)(21) and metabolism (increased lactate production, anaerobic glycolyses) (20,22,23), a decrease in CtO 2 can be expected, which is a proven re-sult in hyperventilated animals (12). Although there was a trend in CtO 2 to confirm these assumptions, statistical analyses obtained no significance in our results.…”