Acute severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning induces hypoxia that leads to cardiovascular and nervous systems disturbances. Different complex mechanisms lead to CO neurotoxicity including lipid peroxidation, inflammatory and immune-mediated reactions, myelin degeneration and finally neuronal apoptosis and necrosis. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is considered to be a novel neuropr...

Carbon monoxide (CO) gas is a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon-based fuels and substances. From a public health perspective, CO poisoning may be the cause of more than 50% of fatal poisonings in many industrial countries. The adverse effects of CO poisoning may be more widespread because of unreported situations and delayed neurologic effects, which may be linked to CO exposure. C...

BACKGROUND Unintentional, non-fire-related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of poisoning death and injury in the USA. Residential poisonings caused by faulty furnaces are the most common type of CO exposure. However, these poisonings are largely preventable with annual furnace inspections and CO alarm installation. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify the knowledge, attitud...

Monoxide Poisoning Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic gas produced by the incomplete combustion of carbon-containing compounds. Until recently, coal contributed a significant portion of the fuel used for heating and cooking in Korea, and most cases of CO poisoning were due to defective exhaust tubes in old coal-heating facilities. To our knowledge, selective degeneration of the cerebellar cortex a...

RATIONALE Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) reduced the incidence of cognitive sequelae 6 weeks after carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning compared with normobaric oxygen (NBO2). The apolipoprotein (APOE) epsilon4 allele predicts unfavorable neurologic outcome after brain injury and stroke. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of the epsilon4 allele on 6-week cognitive sequelae after CO poisoning. METHODS We ...

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless and tasteless poisonous gas with a molecular weight similar to air in low concentrations. For this reason, CO, which also defined as the “silent killer”, one of most common causes fatal poisoning. Mortality depends on duration exposure CO its poisoning, still among leading poisonings world. Whether it for suicidal purposes or result accident, preve...

A community program of screening and education for prevention of vehicular carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning among a high-risk population in a cross-cultural setting is presented. The program was developed after two infant deaths in separate incidents of vehicular CO poisoning. The results of the screening show 18.6 per cent of vehicles exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency eight-hour stan...

Exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) is the leading cause of death by poisoning in industrialized countries. It accounts for hundreds of accidental deaths and thousands of intentional deaths annually in the United States. CO is a colorless, odorless gas that is easily absorbed through the lungs when inhaled. It competes with oxygen for binding to hemoglobin, but because hemoglobin has an affinity f...

We used single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with technetium-99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (99mTc-HM-PAO) in 14 studies on 6 patients with delayed neurologic sequelae from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning to determine whether any changes in cerebral blood flow could be correlated with clinical or computed tomographic evidence of delayed deficits. Among the six initial CT brain...

BACKGROUND The cognitive consequences of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning are well described. However, most studies have been carried out without an ad-hoc group of control subjects. The main aim of this study was to evaluate cognitive and psychiatric outcome after CO exposure during the storm Klaus in the South West of France (January 2009) in a homogeneous group of patients compared to a group ...