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Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2009 Jan;37(1):263–269. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181931ed3

Table 1.

Physiological variables in control, cardiac arrest normothermia and hypothermia rats

	Experimental Group	Pre-CA/hypothermia	Post-CA/hypothermia
MABP (mmHg)	Control	98.58 ± 8.55	102.8 ± 13.7
	CA Normothermia	105.0 ± 13.7	122.5 ± 20.1
	CA Hypothermia	105.8 ± 8.49	111.7 ± 34.5
pH	Control	7.37 ± 0.022	7.36 ± 0.077
	CA Normothermia	7.38 ± 0.032	7.39 ± 0.047
	CA Hypothermia	7.38 ± 0.19	7.37 ± 0.085
PaCO2 (mmHg)	Control	39.93 ± 3.84	39.85 ± 7.83
	CA Normothermia	38.16 ± 2.55	25.22 ± 6.89^***,^‡‡‡
	CA Hypothermia	38.50 ± 3.50	21.81 ± 5.71 ^***,^‡‡‡
PaO2 (mmHg)	Control	244.4 ± 15.7	227.38 ± 58.7
	CA Normothermia	236.3 ± 25.8	417.54 ± 76.2 ^***,^‡‡‡
	CA Hypothermia	234.4 ± 38.1	463.54 ± 67.4 ^***,^‡‡‡
Glucose (mg/dL)	Control	114.5 ± 20.2	121.9 ± 27.1
	CA Normothermia	120.6 ± 32.5	108.5 ± 24.4
	CA Hypothermia	116.3 ± 16.9	136.5 ± 28.2

^***

Statistically significant differences: p<0.001 represent differences of Pre-CA/hypothermia to Post-CA/hypothermia.

^‡‡‡

p<0.001 represents differences between groups Post-CA/hypothermia.