| Anesthetics and automaticity of dominant and latent pacemakers in chronically instrumented dogs. II. Effects of enflurane and isoflurane during exposure to epinephrine with and without muscarinic blockade. | |
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PMID: 8267208 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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BACKGROUND: Atrial dysrhythmias precede ventricular dysrhythmias during epinephrine-anesthetic sensitization, and may be caused by an altered relationship between automaticity of primary and subsidiary pacemakers. The following hypotheses were tested: (1) epinephrine-induced pacemaker shifts with enflurane or isoflurane require intact vagal reflexes and (2) these anesthetics sensitize the atrial myocardium to epinephrine-induced dysrhythmias. METHODS: Eight dogs were instrumented for chronic electrophysiologic investigation, including electrodes at the SA node, atrial appendages, right ventricle, and His bundle, and along the sulcus terminalis. After conscious-state testing, dogs were anesthetized with isoflurane or enflurane and exposed to epinephrine, with or without atropine methylnitrate. Eight-channel ECG recordings were analyzed before and during epinephrine infusions. Atrial pacemakers were assigned values 1-6 with increasing distance from the SA node, normalized and expressed as the site of earliest activation value (SEA). RESULTS: Epinephrine increased SEA values during enflurane or isoflurane anesthesia. Atropine enhanced this increase during enflurane anesthesia, but abolished the increase during isoflurane anesthesia. Enflurane increased SEA values only when combined with atropine. Isoflurane did not increase SEA values under any test conditions. CONCLUSIONS: With enflurane, epinephrine-induced atrial pacemaker shifts in chronically instrumented dogs are caused by direct depression of SA node automaticity or a relative increase of automaticity in subsidiary atrial pacemakers. With isoflurane, pacemaker shifts are caused by reflex-induced vagal suppression of SA node automaticity and escape of latent pacemakers. Enflurane sensitizes the atrial myocardium to dysrhythmias when combined with muscarinic blockade; isoflurane does not sensitize the atrium. |
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Authors:
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M N Vicenzi; H J Woehlck; Z J Bosnjak; J L Atlee |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Anesthesiology Volume: 79 ISSN: 0003-3022 ISO Abbreviation: Anesthesiology Publication Date: 1993 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1994-01-21 Completed Date: 1994-01-21 Revised Date: 2007-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 1300217 Medline TA: Anesthesiology Country: UNITED STATES |
Other Details:
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1316-23 Citation Subset: AIM; IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226. |
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Descriptor/Qualifier:
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Anesthesia Animals Arrhythmias, Cardiac / etiology Cardiac Pacing, Artificial* Dogs Enflurane / pharmacology* Epinephrine / pharmacology* Female Heart Rate / drug effects Isoflurane / pharmacology* Male Parasympatholytics / pharmacology* Receptors, Muscarinic / drug effects, physiology Sinoatrial Node / drug effects*, physiology |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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GM-08377/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS; GM-25064/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS |
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Reg. No./Substance:
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0/Parasympatholytics; 0/Receptors, Muscarinic; 13838-16-9/Enflurane; 26675-46-7/Isoflurane; 51-43-4/Epinephrine |
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