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Instrumentation of Exercising Thoroughbreds to Determine Blood Gas Tensions and Acid‐base Status
Author(s) -
TATE L. P.,
CORBETT W. T.,
FOREMAN J. H.,
BISHOP B. J.,
SWEENEY C. L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
veterinary surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.652
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1532-950X
pISSN - 0161-3499
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-950x.1993.tb00377.x
Subject(s) - medicine , horse , percutaneous , sampling (signal processing) , carotid arteries , blood sampling , surgery , anesthesia , paleontology , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision , biology
A device was constructed of easily obtained medical supplies, and hardware and could be used to obtain multiple arterial samples when manually triggered. The right carotid arteries in five normal horses were surgically elevated, thereby permitting percutaneous cannulation. Each horse was galloped on a 1.6‐km test track at approximately 500 m/min, and the rider triggered the mechanism at each 0.4‐km mark. Each horse underwent 10 test gallops, and a mean and standard error was determined for each sampling mark including preexercise and postexercise samples. The results indicated that horses ridden under the aforementioned conditions became acidemic and hypoxic.