Isobutyl-nitrite-induced methemoglobinemia; treatment with an exchange blood transfusion during hyperbaric oxygenation
| Autor: | E C Jansen, S Barnung, C R Mortensen, T Jansen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Isobutyl nitrite Blood transfusion Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Hyperbaric oxygenation Exchange Transfusion Whole Blood Exchange transfusion Methemoglobinemia chemistry.chemical_compound medicine Humans Nitrites Whole blood Hyperbaric Oxygenation business.industry Lethal dose General Medicine medicine.disease Combined Modality Therapy Surgery Exchange blood transfusion Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine chemistry Anesthesia business |
| Zdroj: | Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica. 47(10) |
| ISSN: | 0001-5172 |
| Popis: | A young man was accidentally intoxicated with isobutyl nitrite by a threefold lethal dose. Due to nitrites' ability to change hemoglobine into methemoglobine the patient showed signs of severe hypoxia, which could not be treated by conventional means. Therefore the patient was rapidly transferred to a hyperbaric chamber. The patient was treated with pure oxygen at 283 kPa under which a blood exchange transfusion was performed. The patient fully recovered. |
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