Carbon monoxide accounts for thousands of deaths worldwide each year. Clinical effects can be diverse and include headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, syncope, seizures, coma, dysrhythmias, and cardiac ischemia, and severe toxicity generally affects the nervous and cardiovascular systems. ⋯ Even when the diagnosis is certain, appropriate therapy is widely debated. Normobaric oxygen is the standard therapy, and the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen is unclear.
Kristine A Nañagas, Shannon J Penfound, and Louise W Kao.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana Poison Center, 1701 North Senate Boulevard, B412b, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. Electronic address: knan... more agas@iuhealth.org. less
Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2022 May 1; 40 (2): 283-312.