Hemostatic responses to exercise, dehydration, and simulated bleeding in heat-stressed humans
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Abstract
Heat stress followed by an accompanying hemorrhagic challenge may influence hemostasis. We tested the hypothesis that hemostatic responses would be increased by passive heat stress, as well as exercise-induced heat stress, each with accompanying central hypovolemia to simulate a hemorrhagic insult. In aim 1, subjects were exposed to passive heating or normothermic time control, each followed by progressive lower-body negative pressure (LBNP) to presyncope. In aim 2 subjects exercised in hyperthermic environmental conditions, with and without accompanying dehydration, each also followed by progressive LBNP to presyncope. At baseline, pre-LBNP, and post-LBNP (<1, 30, and 60 min), hemostatic activity of venous blood was evaluated by plasma markers of hemostasis and thrombelastography. For aim 1, both hyperthermic and normothermic LBNP (H-LBNP and N-LBNP, respectively) resulted in higher levels of factor V, factor VIII, and von Willebrand factor antigen compared with the time control trial (all P < 0.05), but these responses were temperature independent. Hyperthermia increased fibrinolysis [clot lysis 30 min after the maximal amplitude reflecting clot strength (LY 30 )] to 5.1% post-LBNP compared with 1.5% (time control) and 2.7% in N-LBNP ( P = 0.05 for main effect). Hyperthermia also potentiated increased platelet counts post-LBNP as follows: 274 K/µl for H-LBNP, 246 K/µl for N-LBNP, and 196 K/µl for time control ( P < 0.05 for the interaction). For aim 2, hydration status associated with exercise in the heat did not affect the hemostatic activity, but fibrinolysis (LY 30 ) was increased to 6–10% when subjects were dehydrated compared with an increase to 2–4% when hydrated ( P = 0.05 for treatment). Central hypovolemia via LBNP is a primary driver of hemostasis compared with hyperthermia and dehydration effects. However, hyperthermia does induce significant thrombocytosis and by itself causes an increase in clot lysis. Dehydration associated with exercise-induced heat stress increases clot lysis but does not affect exercise-activated or subsequent hypovolemia-activated hemostasis in hyperthermic humans. Clinical implications of these findings are that quickly restoring a hemorrhaging hypovolemic trauma patient with cold noncoagulant fluids (crystalloids) can have serious deleterious effects on the body’s innate ability to form essential clots, and several factors can increase clot lysis, which should therefore be closely monitored.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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