CONSIDERATIONS TO KNOW ABOUT FASTGAS

The last proposed system of RBC vasodilation within the presence of nitrite would be the reduction of nitrite to NO by Hb. Brooks initial studied the nitrite Hb interaction in 1937 which work was later on extended by Doyle in 1981 (Brooks, 1937; Doyle et al., 1981). Nitrite reacts with deoxygenated Hb to sort metHb and NO (Brooks, 1937; Doyle et al