Safe use of pulse oximetry during verteporphin therapy.
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.
Woehlck
Harvey
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Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. hwoehlck@mcw.edu
Herrmann
Dave
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Kaslow
Olga
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D003490:Cyanosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery; D010092:Oximetry / Q000379:methods*; D010778:Photochemotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D000077362:Verteporfin
D017319:Photosensitizing Agents; D011166:Porphyrins; D000077362:Verteporfin