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The anesthetic management of a patient with hemoglobin M(Iwate)
1Dental Center for Special Patients, Iwate Medical University Dental Hospital, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|October 30, 2001
Abstract
Implications:
Pulse oximetry is now considered essential for anesthetic management. We treated a patient with hemoglobin M(Iwate), a rare inheritable hemoglobinopathy rendering pulse oximetry completely useless because of its anomalous absorption spectrum.