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H M Rice

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PubMed1980

Ectopic splenic tissue failed to prevent fatal pneumococcal septicaemia after splenectomy for trauma.

Despite heterotopic splenic tissue, fatal fulminating pneumococcal septicaemia occurred in 2 patients who had had splenectomy for trauma. A girl aged 12 who died 8 years after splenectomy had over a hundred nodules, the largest weighing 3 g. A man of 19 who died 9 years after splenectomy had splenic tissue weighing 92 g. The presence of splenic tissue did not itself protect these patients from overwhelming infection and its ectopic situation with the consequent alteration in blood-supply may be of greater importance than the amount of splenic tissue present.

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PubMed1976

Carboxyhaemoglobin dissociation in the cadaver following attempted resuscitation.

A series of 300 cases of fatal carbon-monoxide poisoning showed wide variations in carboxyhaemoglobin saturation. Levels below 50% in 24 subjects under the age of 70 were probably falsely low following attempted resuscitation on the way to hospital. Artificial respiration, especially with oxygen-rich gas, causes dissociation of carboxyhaemoglobin in the lungs of the cadaver while movement of blood into and out of the lungs, with mixing, lowers the saturation levels in the neighbouring large veins. In four cases subclavian blood showed saturation levels much lower than blood from sites further from the lungs. Blood should be taken from the femoral vein to get true readings.

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