Carboxyhemoglobin levels in medical intensive care patients.docVIP

Cove and Pinsky Critical Care 2012, 16:411 /content/16/1/411 LET TER Carboxyhemoglobin levels in medical intensive care patients Matthew E Cove* and Michael R Pinsky See related research by Fazekas et al., /content/16/1/R6 We read with interest the study by Fazekas and colleagues medical air is supplied by compressing ? ltered environ- demonstrating that lower levels of carboxyhemoglobin mental air. Previous work at Pittsburgh has shown that are associated with increased mortality in critically ill is observation is of interest since prior air resulte