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. 2009 Apr;2(2):158-60.
doi: 10.1093/ndtplus/sfn187. Epub 2008 Dec 4.

Unexpected cyanosis in a haemodialysis patient-did someone add hydrogen peroxide to the dialysis water?

Nicholas Newbigging  1 , Willis Peel  1 , Ewan Bell  1 , Christopher Isles  1
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Unexpected cyanosis in a haemodialysis patient-did someone add hydrogen peroxide to the dialysis water?

Nicholas Newbigging et al. NDT Plus. 2009 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: haemodialysis; hydrogen peroxide; methaemoglobinaemia; saturation gap.

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Contamination of the hospital's main water tank and four dialysis machines by hydrogen peroxide which had been used as a disinfectant. Twelve patients who received dialysis water from the renal unit's water treatment plant were spared.
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