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01-04-2008 | Poster presentation
Neutrophil oxidative burst evaluation during acute normovolemic hemodilution
Authors:
MA Kahvegian, DT Fantoni, DA Otsuki, CA Holms, CO Massoco, JO Auler Jr
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 2/2008
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Excerpt
In recent years there has been increasing evidence that resuscitation strategies with different fluids can have widely divergent impacts on the immune response and neutrophil activation. This study was undertaken to determine the neutrophil's oxidative burst in a swine model during the acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) procedure with hydroxyethyl starch (HES), normal saline solution (NSS) or gelatin (GEL). …