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• City dwellers have at least 1% of carboxyhemoglobin
which can increase to 8% depending upon the
pollution. Over traffic can increase carboxyHb to
40% which leads to death.
• Clinically such patients show cherry red colour of
skin.
• CO poisoning can be treated if high amount of O2 is
provided continuously at high pressure, then at such
high concentrations and pressure HbCO is
dissociated forming HbO2 + CO. When treatment
continues for 2 hours CO is expelled out.
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