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Original Article

In vivo oxygen dissociation curve for whole fetal blood: fitting the Adair equation and blood gas nomogram

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Pages 701-707 | Received 27 Nov 1980, Accepted 26 May 1981, Published online: 08 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Oxygen tension, oxygen saturation of haemoglobin, plasma pH and carbon dioxide tension were analysed from 436 blood samples of the umbilical arteries and umbilical vein and 33 blood samples obtained by puncture of the arteria radialis of newborn babies younger than one day. A computer was used to fit the data to the Adair equation, and to calculate the pH- and Pco, -shift of the oxygen dissociation curve. The results were translated into a Po2-So2-pH-Pco2-nomogram.

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