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Profound desaturation following vomiting on induction. A case for routine pre-oxygenation
A G Head-Rapson1, S J Ralston, S L Snowdon
1University Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Anaesthesia
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
Whilst participating in a clinical trial, a patient vomited during induction of anaesthesia. Subsequent analysis of the continuous record of oxygen saturation showed precipitous desaturation.