The experimental model of severe crush injury in rats by two hindlimbs compression / 中华急诊医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate a reproducible model of severe crush injury (CI) in rats.Methods A total of 50 clean grade male SD rats were randomly (random number) divided into 5 groups.Both hindlimbs of anesthetized rats were compressed by blocks weighing 3.5 kg,for 6 hours and followed by 3 hours of reperfusion on a specially notched device (group SP,n =10),ordinary compression (group NM,n =10) and simple control (group SHAM,n =10).Arterial tension,serum lactate,and potassium (K+),serum myoglobin (MB),aspartate transferase (AST) and alanine transferase (ALT),BUN and Cr were measured at 10 minutes after cannulaton,and 3 hours after release from compression.Muscles and kidneys were evaluated morphologically.Group D and E were treated in the same way and were observed for 72 h to get the survival rate of the NM group and the specially notched compression group.The SPSS 17.0 statistical software was used for statistical analysis,repeated-measures ANOVA analysis for the differences between groups,Kaplan Meier-estimator for survival analysis.Results The Specially notched compression produced a greater increase in serum lactate (F =39.626,P ＜ 0.05),AST (F =24.965,P ＜ 0.05),ALT (F =19.096,P＜0.05),BUN (F=7.938,P＜0.05),CR (F=14.787,P＜0.05) and MB (F=16.840,P ＜0.05) by the end of experiment than NM group and simple control group.The direct cellular damage and ischemia-reperfusion injury were found under microscope.In crush injury caused by specially notched compression there was acute tubular necrosis found at 24 hours after injury.Mortality rate in the NM group was 20％,whereas mortality rate reached 90％ in rats with specially notched compression (P ＜0.05).Conclusions It successfully developed a severe crush injury model in experimental rats,suggesting it is worthwhile to popularization.