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Carbon monoxide poisoning

Forensic Science International, 1989
This paper illustrates the remarkable fall of carbon monoxide poisoning due to the abolition of coal gas in the 1970 era and a corresponding decrease in suicide deaths. It enfolds the varying forms of suicide and accident according to age, sex and circumstance.
D A, Bowen   +3 more
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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 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 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 Poisoning

Survey of Anesthesiology, 1998
Carbon monoxide intoxication continues to be one of the most common causes of morbidity due to poisoning in the United States.1,2 It may be intentional or accidental, and exposure may be lethal. Approximately 600 accidental deaths due to carbon monoxide poisoning are reported annually in the United States,3 and the number of intentional carbon monoxide–
A, Ernst, J D, Zibrak
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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 Poisoning

New England Journal of Medicine, 1965
MEDICOLEGAL problems arise when carbon monoxide is responsible for death. The cause of death may be conclusively established if the amount of carbon monoxide in the blood is determined, and if this...
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Occult Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1988
Excerpt To the editor: The article by Heckering and colleagues (1) contains a potentially useful message.
D A, Nardone, T G, Kelsey
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Carbon monoxide poisoning

Emergency Nurse, 2003
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning remains a common preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. The classic signs of cherry red lips, cyanosis and retinal haemorrhage rarely occur, however.
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Acute carbon monoxide poisoning

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 1988
The course and outcome in terms of cerebral morbidity and hospital mortality in 79 severely carbon monoxide poisoned patients admitted to the intensive care unit during a period of 15 years is presented. Treatment consisted of administration of pure oxygen.
T, Krantz   +3 more
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