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Diffusion Hypoxia

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Diffusion hypoxia is a poorly understood event in clinical anesthesia. Circumstances where this event can occur are described.

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  1. Sheffer L, Steffenson JL, Birch AA. Nitrous oxide-induced diffusion hypoxia in patients breathing spontaneously. Anesthesiology. 1972;37:436–9.

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  1. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

    C. Philip Larson Jr. MDCM (Professor Emeritus, Anesthesia and Neurosurgery Stanford University Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology (Ret.)

  2. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Richard A. Jaffe MD, PhD (Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery)

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Larson, C.P., Jaffe, R.A. (2017). Diffusion Hypoxia. In: Practical Anesthetic Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42866-6_20

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42866-6_20

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