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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Critical Care Clinics, 2021
Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, highly toxic gas primarily produced through the incomplete combustion of organic material. Carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin and other heme molecules, causing tissue hypoxia and oxidative stress. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning can vary from a mild headache to critical illness, which can make diagnosis ...
James A, Chenoweth   +2 more
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Carbon Monoxide Toxicity

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2022
Carbon monoxide accounts for thousands of deaths worldwide each year. Clinical effects can be diverse and include headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, syncope, seizures, coma, dysrhythmias, and cardiac ischemia, and severe toxicity generally affects the nervous and cardiovascular systems.
Kristine A, NaƱagas   +2 more
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Critical Care Clinics, 2012
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is the leading cause of death as a result of unintentional poisoning in the United States. CO toxicity is the result of a combination of tissue hypoxia-ischemia secondary to carboxyhemoglobin formation and direct CO-mediated damage at a cellular level.
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Carbon Monoxide Toxicity

Journal of Burn Care & Research, 2009
Inhalation injury consists of a multitude of insults, the first of which is the toxic gases inhaled during the combustion of organic and inorganic substances. Significant morbidity and mortality in patients with burn injury occur due to the varying effects of these gases.
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Carbon monoxide intoxication

2015
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, nonirritant gas that accounts for numerous cases of CO poisoning every year from a variety of sources of incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. These include poorly functioning heating systems, indoor propane-powered forklifts, indoor burning of charcoal burning briquettes, riding in the back of pick-up ...
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Carbon Monoxide Retinopathy

American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1976
A 26-year-old man who had become comatose after having inhaled carbon monoxide developed retinal venous engorgement and peripillary hemorrhages. Retinal changes closely resembled those that accompany hypoxemia.
L C, Dempsey, J J, O'Donnell, J T, Hoff
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Carbon monoxide poisoning

BMJ, 2019
### What you need to know A 23 year old man with no medical history presents to the emergency department with a three day history of headache, transient visual disturbance, dizziness, and hypertension. On clinical examination the patient is flushed and drowsy with redness in the sclera, with no further visual or systemic symptoms.
James, Ashcroft   +3 more
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Carbon monoxide elimination

Respiration Physiology, 1975
The elimination rates of carbon monoxide in anesthetized, spontaneously breathing dogs were determined following acute inhalation of varying amounts of this gas. Blood levels of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) induced ranged between 5 and 43%. Following the administration of carbon monoxide, the decline in arterial blood %COHb was biphasic. The decline in the
J A, Wagner, S M, Horvath, T E, Dahms
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

New England Journal of Medicine, 2002
Carbon monoxide poisoning is the most common type of accidental poisoning in the United States, accounting for thousands of emergency department visits and some 800 deaths annually. Carbon monoxide, an insidious byproduct of incomplete hydrocarbon combustion, is generated in toxic amounts by internal-combustion engines, fossil-fuel furnaces, and fires.
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Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases

2018
Carbon monoxide dehydrogenases (CODHs) catalyze the reversible oxidation of CO with water to CO2, two electrons, and two protons. Two classes of CODHs exist, having evolved from different scaffolds featuring active sites built from different transition metals. The basic properties of both classes are described in this overview chapter.
Jae-Hun, Jeoung   +2 more
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