WERE ANY OTHER EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY PROF. ROSE AND DAVID LLOYD?
A later series of experiments were carried out at the Equine Performance and Drug Evaluation Laboratory, Dept of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Sydney, later in 1991 to determine the feasibility of pre-race blood sampling and post race analysis of the blood, to detect sodium bicarbonate, the principal component of the so-called “milkshakes”. The Main Findings were: • Use of autoanalyzers to measure the total carbon dioxide concentration in the blood is an accurate method for detecting sodium bicarbonate administration. NB: The total carbon dioxide concentration is not the same as the bicarbonate concentration. Total carbon dioxide is usually about 5% or 1mmol/l higher than the true bicarbonate value. • Storage of blood in lithium heparin Vacutainer tubes for up to 5 days, provides satisfactory results for detecting sodium bicarbonate administration. However, values for total carbon dioxide are on average, 1-2mmol/l lower than those measured immediately after collection. Be
