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Rationale:
- The signs and symptoms of CO toxicity can be confused with neurologic, psychiatric, and cardiac diseases.
- Physicians need to eliminate the alternative diagnoses before making a definitive diagnosis of CO poisoning.
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Comments:
- Owing to the protean manifestations of CO toxicity, it is important to maintain a high index of suspicion in patients with
neurologic or cardiac symptoms but also to realize that it is uncommon and to consider and eliminate more frequently seen
diagnoses.
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