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ORIGINAL PAPERS
Life without Blood
1959
(A study of the influence of high atmospheric pressure and hypothermia
on dilution of the blood)
I. BOEREMA (*), N.G. MEYNE, W. K. BRUMMELKAMP
S. BOUMA, M.H. MENSCH, F. KAMERMANS. M. STERN HANF
and W. VAN. AALDEREN.
(from the Surgical Department of the University of Amsterdam)
Summary
The authors lowered the level of haemoglobin in young pigs to 0.4 per cent, exchanging the blood by plasma or by rheomacrodex. The animals, breathing oxygen at a pressure of 3 atmospheres in a high pressure tank, lived for 45 minutes with a level of haemomglobin not compatible with life when at normal atmospheric pressure. During all this time the EEG showed no pathological changes, the circulation and blood pressure remained spontaneously normal. Recovery was uneventful after re-infusion of normal blood.
(*) Professor of Surgery
J Cardiovasc Surg 1959;13: 133-146
Reprinted with Permission
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