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Nitroprusside and cyanide.
Sir,—An otherwise excellent and thorough report by Vesey, Cole and Simpson (1976) fails to acknowledge or refute a hypothesis which has already appeared in this Journal (Smith and Kruszyna, 1976a) about the mechanism by which cyanide is released from nitroprusside in vivo, and the significance of that reaction for blood cyanide concentrations. We are delighted with the confirmation that "The re...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/49.4.395