[Gas exchange in burns].

Under study was the function of ventilation, gas metabolism, acid-base balance, ECG in 140 patients with burns associated with or without clinical manifestations of shock reaction. It is found that shock is not characterized by any specific changes in the cardiopulmonary system. The disturbances observed in patients with manifest burn shock and in those without shock reaction differ only in the degree of pronouncement and consist in dyspnea with a hypoventilation regimen, high level of basic metabolism, decreased reserve potentialities of the body, metabolic acidosis, diffuse changes in the myocardium.