| Literature DB >> 17692762 |
Jawaid Akhtar1, Bradford D Johnston, Edward P Krenzelok.
Abstract
The "oxygen saturation gap" is the difference between the calculated oxygen saturation from a standard blood gas machine and the reading from a pulse oximeter. If it is greater than 5%, the patient's hemoglobin may be abnormal, representing carbon monoxide poisoning, methemoglobinemia, or sulfhemoglobinemia. We report a case where awareness of the saturation gap led to the diagnosis of carbon monoxide poisoning.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17692762 DOI： 10.1016/j.jemermed.2006.11.016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Emerg Med ISSN： 0736-4679 Impact factor: 1.484