Increased carboxyhemoglobin from hemolysis mistaken as intraoperative desflurane breakdown

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1609-1610

  Wohlfeil, Eric R ^a,b   Woehlck, Harvey J ^a   Gottschall, Jerome L ^a   Poole, William ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; DESFLURANE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034997924     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200106000-00051     Document Type: Article

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