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(Stroke. 1998;29:1679-1686.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Normoxic Ventilation After Cardiac Arrest Reduces Oxidation of Brain Lipids and Improves Neurological Outcome

Yuanbin Liu, PhD; Robert E. Rosenthal, MD; Yolanda Haywood, MD; Milena Miljkovic-Lolic, MD; Jack Y. Vanderhoek, PhD; Gary Fiskum, PhD

From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Y.L., R.E.R., J.Y.V.) and the Department of Emergency Medicine (R.E.R., J.H., M.M.-L.), The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, and the Department of Anesthesiology (G.F.), University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine.

Correspondence to Dr Gary Fiskum, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201. E-mail gfiskum{at}anesthlab.ab.umd.edu

Background and Purpose—Increasing evidence that oxidative stress contributes to delayed neuronal death after global cerebral ischemia has led to reconsideration of the prolonged use of 100% ventilatory O₂ following resuscitation from cardiac arrest. This study determined the temporal course of oxidation of brain fatty acyl groups in a clinically relevant canine model of cardiac arrest and resuscitation and tested the hypothesis that postischemic ventilation with 21% inspired O_2, rather than 100% O_2, results in reduced levels of oxidized brain lipids and decreased neurological impairment.

Methods—Neurological deficit scoring and high performance liquid chromatography measurement of fatty acyl lipid oxidation were used in an established canine model using 10 minutes of cardiac arrest followed by resuscitation with different ventilatory oxygenation protocols and restoration of spontaneous circulation for 30 minutes to 24 hours.

Results—Significant increases in frontal cortex lipid oxidation occurred after 10 minutes of cardiac arrest alone with no reperfusion and after reperfusion for 30 minutes, 2 hours, and 24 hours (relative total 235-nm absorbing peak areas=7.1±0.7 SE, 17.3±2.7, 14.2±3.2, 16.1±1.0, and 14.0±0.8, respectively; n=4, P<0.05). The predominant oxidized lipids were identified by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry as 13- and 9-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acids (13- and 9-HODE). Animals ventilated on 21% to 30% O₂ versus 100% O₂ for the first hour after resuscitation exhibited significantly lower levels of total and specific oxidized lipids in the frontal cortex (1.7±0.1 versus 3.12±0.78 µg 13-HODE/g wet wt cortex., n=4 to 6, P<0.05) and lower neurological deficit scores (45.1±3.6 versus 58.3±3.8, n=9, P<0.05).

Conclusions—With a clinically relevant canine model of 10 minutes of cardiac arrest, resuscitation with 21% versus 100% inspired O₂ resulted in lower levels of oxidized brain lipids and improved neurological outcome measured after 24 hours of reperfusion. This study casts further doubt on the appropriateness of present guidelines that recommend the indiscriminate use of 100% ventilatory O₂ for undefined periods during and after resuscitation from cardiac arrest.

Editorial Comment

Richard J. Traystman, , PhD, Guest Editor

Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

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