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Incidence and range of carboxyhaemoglobin in blood for transfusion
Anaesthesia
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
No statistically significant difference was found between the levels of carboxyhaemoglobin detected in samples from 42 blood units and their sample side arms. A cooximeter was used. However, carboxyhaemoglobin in a range of 1.1-6.9% was found in 18 out of a further 100 side arm samples taken randomly from the blood bank.