作者: K. D. Dagg , L. J. Thomson , R. A. Clayton , S. G. Ramsay , N. C. Thomson
DOI: 10.1136/THX.52.5.453
关键词: Medicine 、 Oxygen saturation (medicine) 、 Inhalation 、 Bronchoconstriction 、 Breathing 、 Methacholine 、 Asthma 、 Hyperoxia 、 Lung volumes 、 Anesthesia
摘要: BACKGROUND: Recent in vitro and vivo studies animals have suggested that ambient oxygen tension may influence airway responsiveness to bronchoconstrictor stimuli. These observations relevance the management of acute exacerbations asthma. The present were designed examine inspired (Fio2 1.0, 0.21, 0.15) on methacholine-induced broncho-constriction patients with METHODS: In a dual study two groups asthmatic performed methacholine inhalation challenges breathing either air 0.21) or hypoxic gas mixture 1 hyperoxia 1.0) 2. gases administered through closed circuit randomised double blind fashion. PC20 values (dose causing 20% fall forced expiratory volume one second (FEV1) calculated after each challenge by linear interpolation from logarithmic dose response curve. Plasma catecholamine levels measured before as well heart rate, saturation, percentage end tidal carbon dioxide levels. RESULTS: geometric mean value for was significantly lower day than normoxic (mean difference 2.88 mg/ml (95% CI 1.4 5.3); p