Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Author: Jeffrey T. Chapman, MD
Editorial changes - 2006-01-30
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Prevention
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Clinical Information
Article
   Headache
 Characteristics of headache associated with acute carbon monoxide poisoning
   Journal of the American Medical Association
 Myocardial injury and long-term mortality following moderate to severe carbon monoxide poisoning
   Postgraduate Medical Journal
 Breath analysis to detect recent exposure to carbon monoxide
Review
   Cochrane Library
 Hyperbaric oxygen for carbon monoxide poisoning (Cochrane Review)
   Critical Care Clinics
 Carbon monoxide poisoning
   Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
 Environmental insults: smoke inhalation, submersion, diving, and high altitude
   Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
 Carbon monoxide and the nervous system
   Toxicology
 The clinical toxicology of carbon monoxide
Commentary
   ACP Journal Club
      Burns and smoke inhalation
 2002 - Review: Albumin increases mortality in critically ill patients
 1999 - Hyperbaric oxygen did not reduce persistent neurologic sequelae of carbon monoxide poisoning

Patient Information
Web
 American Industrial Hygiene Association: Carbon Monoxide – The Silent, Cold Weather Killer
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Fact Sheet
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Checklist for the Prevention of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning
 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: “The ‘Senseless’ Killer”
 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Sources of Indoor Air Pollution - Carbon Monoxide (CO)
FAQs | Patient Information
Carlos Scheinkestel, MD, editorial consultant, has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations. Jeffrey T. Chapman, MD has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations.


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