RT Book, Section
A1 Palatnick, Wesley
A2 Tenenbein, Milton
A2 Macias, Charles G.
A2 Sharieff, Ghazala Q.
A2 Yamamoto, Loren G.
A2 Schafermeyer, Robert
SR Print(0)
ID 1155749274
T1 Methemoglobinemia
T2 Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259860751
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155749274
RD 2024/10/07
AB Suspect  methemoglobinemia  in  patients  with  cyanosis  unresponsive  to  100%  oxygen.The  antidote  for  methemoglobinemia  is  methylene  blue.In  patients  with  methemoglobinemia,  conventional  pulse  oximetry  produces  factitiously  low  oxygen  saturations.Co-oximetry  is  the  method  of  choice  for  methemoglobin  measurement.Young  infants  with  diarrhea  and  sepsis  can  develop  methemoglobinemia.