Effect of Intracisternal Injection of Potassium Phosphate in Hemorrhagic Hypotension and Shock in the Dog

Abstract

Summary

Although the intracisternal injection into normal dogs of therapeutic doses of potassium phosphate increases the rate and amplitude of respiration, the arterial pressure and heart rate, the response in hemorrhagic hypotension or shock was not uniform. Injection into normal dogs of larger doses resulted in death.