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John, I have the utmost respect for your knowlege in this stuff, but, John, this is not what folks say in any course I've ever heard of. Increased partial pressures mean driving the hemoglobin binding reaction harder. Unless you have found that accordingly higher, in the same proportion, naturally, as pressure increases, come to think about it, p02's keep it in the same balance. So, then, are you saying that the steady-state balance of hemoglobin binding sites for the two guilty parties (CO and O2) does not change since their relative partial pressures do not change? This opposes what I have heard some pretty well known scuba-folks say. You know, I just sat here and almost talked myself into this. >I am NOT kidding. If the monoxide level is "safe" at the surface, it >is safe at depth (assuming the same mix is breathed both at the surface >and at depth, and we are only looking at the effect of the monoxide). > >Will not expound on the physiology at this time, but will wait and >see what other responses we get to this. ------------------------------------------------------- scot@bt*.co* Scot Anderson pp000082@in*.co* Voice: 703/761/6536 CIS:74147.2357 Fax: 703/556/9290
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