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Acute Hemorrhage and Oxygen Free Radicals

From the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Jawahar Kalra

From the Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan and University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Greg Buchko

Oxygen free radicals are known to produce cellular injury. There are various mechanisms during hemorrhagic shock that can lead to an increase in the oxy gen free radicals, which would produce a loss of membrane integrity and a decrease in cardiac function and cardiac contractility. The authors studied the effect of acute hemorrhage and reperfusion on the hemodynamics, blood lac tate, and oxygen free radicals.

Dogs were divided into two groups, group I, hemorrhagic shock and reinfu sion; group II, hemorrhagic shock and reinfusion with superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase treatment. The dogs were bled (50% of the estimated blood volume) over a period of five to twelve minutes. After an hour of bleeding, the shed blood was transfused over twenty to twenty-five minutes. Group II re ceived SOD (0.7 mg/kg, IV) and catalase (0.7 mg/kg, IV) within ten minues of bleeding. The hemodynamic measurements and collection of blood samples for measurement of oxygen free radicals and lactate were made before hemorrhage and at fifteen, thirty, and sixty minutes of hemorrhage and at fifteen, thirty, and sixty minutes after reperfusion of shed blood.

There was a decrease in the cardiac function and index of myocardial con tractility associated with an increase in the blood lactate after hemorrhage in group I. Similar but less marked changes in these parameters were observed in group II. Recovery of hemodynamic parameters with reinfusion was better in group II as compared with that in group I. There was an increase in blood oxygen free radicals (superoxide anions) in group I, especially after reinfusion.

No such changes were observed in group II. These results suggest that oxygen free radicals might be involved in acute hemorrhagic shock. Use of scavengers of oxygen free radicals might, therefore, be helpful in hemorrhagic shock.

Angiology, Vol. 39, No. 12, 1005-1013 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/000331978803901201


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