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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning [PDF]

open access: possibleMedical Clinics of North America, 2004
CO is an insidious poison with many sources of exposure. CO poisoning produces diverse signs and symptoms, which often are subtle and can be misdiagnosed easily. Failure to diagnose CO poisoning may result insignificant morbidity and mortality and allow continued exposure to a dangerous environment.
Kristine A. Nañagas, Louise W. Kao
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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–
Joseph D. Zibrak, Armin Ernst
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Carbon monoxide poisoning [PDF]

open access: bronzeEmergency Medicine Australasia, 2000
Paul D Mark, David Smart
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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.L. Bowen   +3 more
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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

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1976
ACUTE carbon monoxide poisoning accounts for approximately 3,500 accidental or suicidal deaths per year in the United States. Many are preventable by medical management based on physiologic understanding. Pathophysiology Carbon monoxide poisoning and its mechanism have been known since Claude Bernard reported in 1857 that this gas caused death by ...
John N. Miller, Peter M. Winter
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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   +4 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

2006
Carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide poisoning is a frequent and serious intoxication with an important pre-hospital mortality. The diagnosis is made by the association of a context and compatible neurological and cardiac clinical signs. This diagnosis is now eased by home or firefighters detectors. Management is based primarily on the extraction
Daniel Mathieu   +4 more
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CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING [PDF]

open access: possibleArchives of Dermatology, 1969
To the Editor.— I found extremely interesting the report of cutaneous changes in a patient with carbon monoxide poisoning. 1 Recently, I had the opportunity of observing and reporting dermal changes in two victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. 2 The observations noted in both the abovecited reports agree in most respects.
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