Effect on Sco when Diluting a Blood Sample Containing HbCO and HbO

Effect on Sco when Diluting a Blood Sample Containing HbCO and HbOs 

It is therefore necessary to use cuvettes with very thin layers although this may seem complicated, these cuvettes (Z3) are in fact very easy to handle. 

When measuring in thin layers with a dilution factor 1, little or no conversion of HbCO to HbOz is encountered. To demonstrate this, three samples containing HbCO were measured as follows  

Effect of Satuh.ation with Oxygen on Sco as Determined with the Methods Described in Sections 6.1.1 and 6.2.1 

The method given in Section 6.2.1 may be regarded as the most suitable spectrophotometric method for the determination of Sco- If, however, proper measures are taken against errors caused by the formation of SHbCO, the procedures 6.1.1 and 6.2.1 are of the same order of accuracy. 

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