The aim of this study is to compare the p50 value in routine blood gas measurements taken during liver transplant surgery follow-up with other follow-up parameters and clinical findings on the monitors, and to investigate whether there is a predictive parameter that can predict the rapidly changing clinical findings of the patients.
Blood gas monitoring is the most commonly method used by anesthetists during liver transplant surgeries. We evaluated the blood gas p50 value according to the stages in these heart transplant operations. We tried to find out how the blood gas p50 value would guide the patient's clinical findings in the dissection phase, anhepatic phase and neohepatic phase. For this purpose, we compared arterial and venous blood gas p50 values with the patient's vital signs at certain stages in liver transplant surgeries.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
25
İnönü Üniversitesi Merkez Kampüsü (Elazığ Yolu 15.km) Battalgazi
Malatya, Turkey (Türkiye)
p50 changes during liver transplant surgery
P50 is the partial pressure of oxygen required to achieve 50% haemoglobin saturation. The normal p50 value is 24-28 mmHg. The oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve represents the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen. The p50 value represents a mid-point in this curve, and gives us information regarding that affinity. Determining the clinical value, if any, of the changes in p50 values taken at different stages of liver transplantation surgery may be useful in the follow-up of these patients in the future and may help in making intraoperative decisions.
Time frame: T0: at the end of the dissection before clamps T1: 5 min. before reperfusion (anhepatic) T2: 30 min. after reperfusion of the liver graft (neohepatic) T3: after hepatic artery reperfusion T4: End of the operation
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