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Safe use of pulse oximetry during verteporphin therapy. Anesth Analg 2003 Jan;96(1):177-8, table of contents

Date

12/31/2002

Pubmed ID

12505948

DOI

10.1097/00000539-200301000-00037

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-0037221698 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   8 Citations

Abstract

Pulse oximetry may produce skin damage after the administration of photosensitizing chemotherapeutic drugs. Surgery must often be performed in near darkness during photodynamic therapy. Limiting the duration of pulse oximetry and rotating sites allowed successful use of pulse oximetry in a long anesthetic during which verteporphin was administered.

Author List

Woehlck H, Herrmann D, Kaslow O

Authors

Olga Y. Kaslow MD, PhD Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Harvey J. Woehlck MD Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Cyanosis
Humans
Male
Meningioma
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
Oximetry
Photochemotherapy
Photosensitizing Agents
Porphyrins
Skin Diseases