Green Blood Shocks Mds During Surgery
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The green blood came as a bit of a shock to Dr. Alana Flexman and her colleagues when they tried to put an arterial line into a patient about to undergo surgery in Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital.
"During insertion, we normally see arterial blood come out. That's how we know we're in the right place. And normally that blood is bright red, as you would expect in an artery," Flexman said in an interview Thursday."It's so rare that we don't have a perfect understanding how it happens, but some drug donates a sulfur group that binds to the hemoglobin molecule and prevents it from binding to oxygen," Flexman explains. "And that gives it the green colour."See the full content of this document
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Green Blood Shocks Mds During Surgery
By Helen Branswell
TORONTO -- The green blood came as a bit of a shock to Dr. Alana Flexman and her colleagues when they tr...See the full content of this document
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