Plasma Volume Expansion Resulting from Intravenous Glucose Tolerance Test
Figure 2
(a) Simulation showing the plasma volume expansion that would ensue if the injection time was increased to 5 min (left) from 1 min (right) for an IVGTT dose of 0.2 g/kg and 0.3 g/kg of glucose, respectively. (b) Simulation of the plasma glucose level if the glucose load was decreased to 0.2 g/kg (left) from 0.3 g/kg (right) in surgical patients (solid line) and in volunteers (broken line). The kinetic data for volunteers were taken from the present study, and those for surgery ( = 9.1 L and = 0.21 L/min) were derived from [7].
