DESCRIPTION OF AN ANIMAL MODEL OF ACUTE CARDIAC FAILURE: IN VIVO EXPERIMENTS IN SHEEP

E.I. CABRERA FISCHER ; J.M. CAMUS ; M. RISK ; A. DÍAZ ; E. DE FORTEZA

LATIN AMERICAN APPLIED RESEARCH

PLAPIQUI(UNS-CONICET)

Año: 2011 vol. 41 p. 233 - 239

0327-0793

The purposes of this work were to, a) describe an acute animal model of severe cardiac failure induced by high doses of halothane, b) ana- lyze the effects of these overdoses of halothane on ar- terial wall dynamics and c) characterize the cardi- ovascular effects of halothane through the autonomic nervous system. Measurements were performed in six sheep before and after halothane administration (4%). A significative decrease was observed in mean aortic flow (P