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ENDOGENOUS FORMATION OF CARBON MONOXIDE IN NEWBORN INFANTS
Author(s) -
Fällström S. P.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1968.tb06967.x
Subject(s) - medicine , haemolysis , carbon monoxide , expired air , anesthesia , biochemistry , immunology , chemistry , catalysis
Summary A modification of the open circuit CO‐method was developed for determination of the total amount of haemoglobin in newborn infants. Simultaneous determinations of the COHb level, the pulmonary CO elimination and the total haemoglobin were performed on 32 full‐term newborn infants. The rate of haemoglobin catabolism was calculated from the CO elimination and the total haemoglobin on the assumption that CO is formed mainly from degraded haemoglobin and is eliminated quantitatively in the expired air. An evaluation of the COHb level as a quantitative measure of haemolysis was made.