Docs of 2020- Latest Research Encompassing Physiology’s Updates
You CAN detect CO in the blood using Pulse Oximetry!!!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4476500/pdf/nihms471868.pdf
Pulse oximetry has previously relied on a major assumption to give clinicians the information needed to treat patients with hypoxia; that the saturation the device is measuring is oxyhemoglobin. But this assumption has a very real and potentially fatal consequence. Carboxyhemoglobin can give false normal readings for the traditional pulse oximiter, which uses infrared light to measure the saturation of hemoglobin molecules not differentiating between oxygen and carbon monoxide binding. A new device, called the Rad-57, utilized multi-wavelength detection to distinguish between the oxygen binding and carbon monoxide binding. This circumvents the need to make such a dangerous assumption and has the potential to prevent misdiagnosis of a common cause of death.
Derek Sonnenberg
Hannah Stein
Colin Stone
Nadarra Stokes
Richard Sanders
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