Oxygen should be administered until the carboxyhemoglobin level is normal.

Roughly speaking, such standards translate into 2 percent carboxyhemoglobin in the blood.

This may be a result of raised carboxyhemoglobin levels from carbon monoxide.

In the new study, patients had to raise their blood carbon monoxide level to 6 percent carboxyhemoglobin before a significant effect was seen.

This amount is also called the carboxyhemoglobin level.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can speed the return of carboxyhemoglobin levels to normal.

This is due to the carboxyhemoglobin being misrepresented as oxyhemoglobin.

A level of 50% carboxyhemoglobin may result in seizure, coma, and fatality.

Most people normally have at most only a few percent of their hemoglobin as carboxyhemoglobin.

Federal health surveys have found that 5 to 10 percent of all non-smoking Americans have this much carboxyhemoglobin in their blood at any time.

However, an animal, like a human, should survive very small ammounts of carboxyhemoglobin in its blood with very little or no effects.

This process produces a certain amount of carboxyhemoglobin in normal persons, even if they do not breathe any carbon monoxide.

Acute effects are due to the formation of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood, which inhibits oxygen intake.

This carbon monoxide also combines with hemoglobin to make carboxyhemoglobin, but not at toxic levels.

Does anybody know what carboxyhemoglobin is?

Normal carboxyhemoglobin levels in an average person are typically less than 5%, although cigarette smokers (two packs/day) may have levels up to 9%.

A CO-oximeter is used to determine carboxyhemoglobin levels.

Carboxyhemoglobin levels have been shown to have a strong correlation with breath CO concentration.

When carboxyhemoglobin levels exceed 50 percent, respiratory failure, convulsions or seizures, coma and death can follow.

Examination of the airways revealed no soot deposition, and blood carboxyhemoglobin saturation was minimal.

It combines with hemoglobin to produce carboxyhemoglobin, which is ineffective for delivering oxygen to bodily tissues.

It provides clinicians a way to measure the dyshemoglobins carboxyhemoglobin and methemoglobin along with total hemoglobin.

Concentrations as low as 667 ppm may cause up to 50% of the body's hemoglobin to convert to carboxyhemoglobin.

Nonsmokers who live in urban environments, where carbon monoxide is a common air pollutant, typically have levels of up to 2 percent carboxyhemoglobin.

This can be determined by measuring the amount of carboxyhemoglobin compared to the amount of hemoglobin in the blood.