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TRAUBE WAVES AND MAYER WAVES
Author(s) -
Halliburton W. D.
Publication year - 1919
Publication title -
quarterly journal of experimental physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1469-445X
pISSN - 0370-2901
DOI - 10.1113/expphysiol.1919.sp000262
Subject(s) - asphyxia , medicine , anesthesia
The evidence available points to the conclusion that the large sweeping waves seen during asphyxia in curarised animals are identical with similar waves sometimes noticeable in the arterial blood‐pressure tracings of uncurarised animals. They are probably of vaso‐motor origin; it seems appropriate to designate them after their original discoverer Traube. The waves described by S. Mayer are of an entirely different nature, and are produced in an artificial manner: they have no physiological significance.