Carbon Monoxide Resource
This page is designed as a resource site for those physicians who manage carbon monoxide poisoning.
Read or download the Navy Hospital's 'Criteria for the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen following exposure to Carbon Monoxide', attached below.
You can read or download 'The Clinical Toxicology of Carbon Monoxide', 2002, Gorman, Des, et al, Toxicology 187, 2003, which is also attached below.
Visit The New England Journal of Medicine website to read Weaver, L. K. et al, 'Hyperbaric Oxygen for Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning' in NEJM Vol.347, No 14, pp. 1057-1066, 3 Oct 2002.
Currently accepted guidelines for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in patients with carbon monoxide poisoning include:
* Coma;
* Any period of unconsciousness;
* Metabolic acidosis;
* COHb > 25%;
* Pregnancy and COHb > 15%;
* Signs of cardiac ischaemia or arrhythmia on ECG; and
* Age > 50.
If you would like more information please email us or telephone us on (09) 445 5922 or 4455920.
The Navy accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained in publications by external authors or in linked websites.