HYPOXAEMIA AFTER INHALATION OF 50% NITROUS OXIDE AND OXYGEN
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- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 63 (3) , 346-347
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/63.3.346
Abstract
We have investigated, in volunteers, the effect of inhaling 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen on subsequent oxygenation. Subjects breathed either 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen or 50% nitrogen in oxygen during hyperventilation and normal ventilation. Arterial oxygen saturation and end-expired oxygen concentrations were lower after 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen than after the other mixture with both patterns of ventilation and were lowest after hyperventilation with 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: