Postoperative Compensatory Ammonium Excretion Subsequent to Systemic Acidosis in Cardiac Patients

Table 1

Administered types of fluids and their respective volume during the operation as well as the postoperative phase dependent on the patients’ initial postoperative disturbance in acid-base status.

	Patients with initial postoperative respiratory acidosis and subsequent BE > + 2 mEq/L		Patients with initial postoperative respiratory acidosis and no subsequent disorder		Patients with initial postoperative metabolic acidosis and no subsequent disorder
	Intraoperative	Postoperative	Intraoperative	Postoperative	Intraoperative	Postoperative
Priming solution (0.9% NaCl) (ml)	1150 ± 100	—	1100	—	1125 ± 71	—
Bretschneider solution (ml)	1450 ± 332	—	1500	—	1600 ± 220	—
Sodium bicarbonate 8.4% (ml)	105 ± 47	—	100	—	106 ± 35	—
Jonosteril (ml)	2188 ± 688	—	3000	—	1813 ± 594	169 ± 477
Ringer’s solution (ml)	—	2400 ± 387	—	950	—	2506 ± 937
0.9% NaCl (ml)	188 ± 149	1363 ± 622	—	350	225 ± 325	1363 ± 994
Gelafundin (ml)	338 ± 471	2250 ± 289	500	1500	450 ± 325	2375 ± 641
Red cell concentrate (ml)	75 ± 150	150 ± 300	—	—	75 ± 139	175 ± 388