[Pulmonary function parameters of shock lung patients--results of a follow-up study].

In seventeen patients out of a total of 219 survivors who had received long-term ventilation for pulmonary failure, an examination was carried out to clarify the question as to late pulmonary sequelae. The following sequelae were detected: 1. a diffusion disturbance in five cases, 2.

Thoracic peridural block in experimental endotoxin shock.

The influence of thoracic peridural block (PDB) on the metabolic and hemodynamic changes in endotoxin shock were investigated in rabbits. During the first 6 h of endotoxin shock, sensomotoric and sympathetic blockade distal to spinal segment T4 was achieved by intermittent administration of bupivacaine into a thoracic peridural catheter. The increase of plasma glucose, lactate, and free glycerol 2 h after endotoxin (50 micrograms/kg) administration was prevented by PDB.