Premortal changes in the concentration of the serum electrolytes.
Premortal changes in the concentration of the serum electrolytes.
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血清电解质浓度的生前变化。
DOI:
10.1111/j.0954-6820.1948.tb03403.x
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发表时间:
2009
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O. Broch
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O. Broch
Discussion.It can hardly be doubted that the necessary requirement for the production of these premortal electrolytic changes is a considerable degree of dehydration, leading at the same time to azotemia and pathological acids in the blood. The supply of liquids was minimal and the diuresis was impossible to measure, It is understandable that these changes will be most pronounced in case of apoplexy, where the patients are lying unconscious and receive no nourishment and where parenteral administration of liquids is usually omitted in view of the hopeless prognosis. The cause must be supposed to be a selective loss of water, together with some retention of salt. Judging from the hemoconcentration the loss of water is percentually far greater than the increase in the total bases. The patients have been highly febrile and the insensible loss of water has certainly been considerable. Some have perspired very profusely and the sweat contained relatively little salt. One patient (No. 5) was given one litre of a 2.6 per cent sodium bicarbonate solution intravenously in two days. He got a cerebral thrombosis, became soporous and on the next day comatose. He died after four days. The conditions for an increase of the total bases, such as was seen in the first patients, should here be supposed to exist. In spite of intravenous injection of about 620 m. eq. of Na in the form of bicarbonate, which about corresponds to the whole content of Na in the blood, there came in this case a reduction of the serum Na. Neither was there any hemoconcentration, which probably explains why no premortal rise in the total bases occurred in this case. The great degree of dehydration and the impaired vitality must be supposed probably through reduced filtration, to put the kidney partly out of action. The retention of urea and pathological acids may also be said to point in that direction. Perhaps there may be an increased reabsorption of Na through the tubules. No increase of electrolytes was noted in patients with edema (Nos. 12, 13, 14). It is reasonable to suppose that the abundant supply of extracellular fluid serves as a depot which stands at disposal and prevents dehydration and reduction of the blood volume.