Scorpion venom leads to gastrointestinal ischemia despite increased oxygen delivery in pigs

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 834-840

  Sofer, Shaul ^a   Cohen, Rubin ^b   Shapir, Yehuda ^b   Chen, Ling ^b   Colon, Athos ^b   Scharf, Steven M ^b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiac output; Gastric pH; Gastric tonometry; Ischemia; Metabolic acidosis; Oxygen delivery; Scorpion venom

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HYPOXIA; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION; SWINE;

ACIDOSIS; ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; ISCHEMIA; OXYGEN; SCORPION VENOMS; SWINE;

EID: 0030997421     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199705000-00020     Document Type: Article

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