carboxyhemoglobin
By: Scribe Valdemir Mota de Menezes
It is the combination of carbon monoxide with hemoglobin. The danger of carboxyhemoglobin is that carbon monoxide has much more affinity to hemoglobin than oxygen. In addition, carbon monoxide has the power to remove the oxygen aoxiemoglobina when the levels of carbon monoxide reach a concentration of 1 to 2000, 60% of hemoglobin becomes carboxyhemoglobin and increasing slightly over this level person goes into a coma.
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