Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for carbon monoxide poisoning

Hyperbaric oxygen for acute carbon monoxide poisoning.

BACKGROUND Patients with acute carbon monoxide poisoning commonly have cognitive sequelae. We conducted a double-blind, randomized trial to evaluate the effect of hyperbaric-oxygen treatment on such cognitive sequelae. METHODS We randomly assigned patients with symptomatic acute carbon monoxide poisoning in equal proportions to three chamber sessions within a 24-hour period, consisting of eit...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for pediatric patients with carbon monoxide poisoning.

We read with great interest the article by Yarar et al. entitled “Analysis of the features of acute carbon monoxide poisoning and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in children”1. Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, with its high morbidity and mortality, remains an important public health problem. The data about CO poisoning in pediatric patients are limited and the contributions of Yarar et al. are of valu...

Severe carbon monoxide poisoning: outcome after hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

This paper reports the outcome after carbon monoxide poisoning in 31 consecutive patients treated with mechanical ventilation and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, compared with another study of mechanically ventilated patients treated with normobaric oxygen. We found 16.1% hospital mortality and 3.8% severe short-term memory loss, compared with 30% hospital mortality and 20% incidence of serious neur...

Hyperbaric oxygen in carbon monoxide poisoning.

Should hyperbaric oxygen be used for carbon monoxide poisoning?