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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Saving Lives, Advancing Treatment [PDF]
, 2017 Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a serious public health issue. In England and Wales alone, every year some 4,000 attendances to emergency departments (EDs) are the result of accidental CO poisoning.
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, I +17 more
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Diagnostic methods for carbon monoxide poisoning [PDF]
, 2023 The diagnosis of Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning consists of three elements: symptoms associated with carbon monoxide poisoning, exposure to CO, and an increase in COHb levels.
Akdur, Gökhan +2 more
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Mechanism of delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide poisoning
Neural Regeneration Research, 2020 Many hypotheses exist regarding the mechanism underlying delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide poisoning (DEACMP), including the inflammation and immune-mediated damage hypothesis and the cellular apoptosis and direct neuronal toxicity ...
Yan-qing Huang +3 more
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The late effects of carbon monoxide poisoning [PDF]
, 2023 Carbon monoxide is a highly toxic gas for humans, which is formed as a result of the incomplete combustion of carbon-based fuels. It is a difficult gas to detect due to its non-irritant and high diffusion capacity.
Sultanoğlu, H. +2 more
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2001 The deadly effect of carbon monoxide was known as long ago as Greek and Roman times, when the gas was used for executions1. In 1857 Claude Bernard postulated that its noxious effect was caused by reversible displacement of oxygen from haemoglobin to form carboxyhaemoglobin2.
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Functioning and Interpersonal Communication in a Victim of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning – A Case Study
Konteksty Pedagogiczne, 2020 Carbon monoxide poisoning leads to the destruction of nerve cells and results in late neurological symptoms. The article presents the clinical symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning and related consciousness disorders. A case study is analyzed which shows
Anna Borzęcka
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Neurocognitive sequelae after carbon monoxide poisoning and hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Medical Gas Research, 2020 Carbon monoxide (CO) has been the leading cause of poisoning mortality in many countries and hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) is a widely accepted treatment for CO poisoning.
Ke-Yong Ning +5 more
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Scientifica, 2016 Objective. This study examined the hypothesis that correlations exist between the carbon monoxide exposure time and the carboxyhemoglobin concentration at the site of carbon monoxide poisoning, using a pulse carbon monoxide oximeter in rural areas or the
Makoto Onodera +6 more
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South African Family Practice, 2014 Background: Private portable electrical power generators are common household items in Nigeria owing to inadequate electrical power provision for the public. These engines often run indoors, emitting poisonous carbon monoxide gas. Fatalities are commonly
Jide Afolayan +3 more
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Carbon monoxide poisoning - rescue procedure
Medycyna Ogólna i Nauki o Zdrowiu, 2020 Introduction Carbon monoxide is known as the ‘silent killer’. It may lead to a direct threat to people’ s life. In the statistics, carbon monoxide poisoning is in the third place after drugs and alcohol.
Magdalena Babuśka - Roczniak +5 more
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