Zimmermann, Markus and Ittner, Karl-Peter (2000) Carbon monoxide poisoning in emergency medicine. ANASTHESIOLOGIE & INTENSIVMEDIZIN, 41 (4). pp. 239-244. ISSN 0170-5334, 1439-0256
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Carbon monoxide intoxication plays a major part in the emergency treatment of inhalational poisoning. The color- and odorless gas is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon containing materials. Major sources for carbon monoxide poisoning are motor vehicle exhaust fumes, poorly functioning heating systems and smoke inhalation in a fire. Carbon monoxide toxicity results from a combination of tissue hypoxia and direct carbon monoxide-mediated damage at the cellular level. The clinical symptoms of an intoxication are nonspecific. The diagnosis is therefore based on amnestic evaluation of a possible exposure to a dangerous environment and on elevated carboxyhaemoglobin levels. Therapeutic ma-nagement focusses mainly on terminating hypoxia and related acidosis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | HYPERBARIC-OXYGEN; LIPID-PEROXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; INTOXICATION; BRAIN; MANAGEMENT; EXPOSURE; SEQUELAE; OXIDASE; RAT; emergencies; poisoning; carbon monoxide; first aid |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Anästhesiologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 17 May 2022 05:50 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2022 05:50 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/42597 |
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