TY  - JOUR
T1  - HYperbaric oxygen therapy in chronic hemorrhagic shock
AU  - Amonic RS, Cockett AK, Lorhan PH, Thompson JC
Y1  - 1969/06/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160110023005
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2051
EP  - 2054
VL  - 208
IS  - 11
N2  - A Jehovah's Witness patient bled massively per rectum, but refused blood transfusion. A bleeding gastric leiomyoma was excised at eventual operation. His hemoglobin value fell to 2.2 gm/100 cc and on the third postoperative day he showed evidence of severe cerebral and myocardial ischemia and congestive heart failure developed. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy caused a reversal of all signs and symptoms of hypoxia, and the patient recovered. Blood taken from a subject breathing air at 1 atmosphere pressure has 0.3 vol% of oxygen dissolved in plasma; if the subject breathes 100% oxygen at 2 atmospheres absolute pressure, the amount of oxygen in physical solution in plasma is 4 vol%. In a patient with greatly diminished hemoglobin value, this increase in plasma oxygen may be adequate to sustain life.
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160110023005
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160110023005
ER  -