Evaluation of abdominal wall lifting system utilization: experimental study in dogs

With the purpose of evaluate abdominal wall lifting system, a experimental protocol was elaborated, and thirty dogs, distributed randomly in three experimental groups, pneumoperitoneum with carbon dioxide gas, abdominal (intraperitoneal) suspension and subcutaneous suspension, were studied to document metabolic, hemodynamic and respiratory alterations, compare then and verify if there are some advantage or disadvantage in each method. The animals were monitored with electrocardiogram, Swan-Ganz catheter and invasive arterial blood pressure, and samples of arterial and venous blood were collected at the moments basal, 0, 15, 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes, and 30 minutes after the end of procedure, registering at each moment the hemodynamical parameters. The three groups were statically compared with Kruskal-Wallis test and, at the moments with statistical differences, the groups were compared two by two with Mann-Whitney test. At the group pneumoperitoneum was observed significant decrease of blood pH, raising of bicarbonate, central venous pressure, and partial carbon dioxide blood pressure in relation to suspension groups, and those differences were statistically significant with p<0.05, without significant differences between abdominal and subcutaneous suspension groups.