Monday September 8, 2008
And we thought any free fluid in peritoneum is bad

Noriyuki and their colleague studied if peritoneum can be another oxygen storage organ??

They studied the role of peritoneum and its safety by infusing volume of oxygenated RBC and with oxygenated saline in Dogs and followed hemodynamic changes. The controls comprised of dogs that underwent sham operation.

Result: They found that intraperitoneal infusion of less than 1250 ml was hemodynamically safe. Oxygenation levels (PaO2) increased with intraperitoneal infusion of oxygenated RBC.

Conclusion: Peritoneum can potentially serve as an “artificial Lung” in critically ill patients.


Editors' comment: Watch out GI may be now playing as Pulmonalogist in future.


Reference: click to get reference/article

THE PERITONEUM AS A NOVEL OXYGENATION ORGAN: REVITALIZATION OF INTRAPERITONEAL OXYGENATION. Shock. 30(3):250-253, September 2008. Matsutani, Noriyuki; Takase, Bonpei; Nogami, Yashiro ; Ozeki, Yuichi ; Ishihara, Masayuki ; Maehara, Tadaaki