Tuesday, November 22, 2011

November 22, 2011

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

Couple showed "no signs" of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Echo By Gina Marden 
A CONSULTANT at Basildon Hospital said a couple who died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning showed “no signs” of the illness when they were treated. Pamela Cox, 56 and her husband Leslie, 58, were found dead at their home in ... COSA Note: This medical community presented with the most common of carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms apparently is not prepared to recognize and test for increased COHb% levels in the victims/patients. 

The following quote from the article really says it all about how ignorant the health care provider community is when it comes to carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms. These symptoms are presented to HCP’s every day and CO poisoning isn’t even a slight burp of a thought. “Two days before their death Mr. Cox was taken to Basildon Hospital by ambulance suffering dizziness and vomiting and whilst there his wife collapsed. Despite that neither was diagnosed with carbon monoxide poisoning.“ No diagnosis from the symptoms? That is like saying that people poisoned by carbon monoxide at an indoor monster truck rally are sickened by the "Silent Killer". 

Follow up
Carbon monoxide not ruled out as cause of deaths
Martinsville Bulletin By ASHLEY JACKSON - Bulletin Staff Writer
Autopsies conducted Monday on the bodies of two people found dead inside a Collinsville home showed no indications that anything other than carbon monoxide poisoning led to their deaths, but more testing must ...

CO Awareness Week, UK
Reduce the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning over winter
Rochdale Online
At the Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week the Health Protection Agency is advising people to have their fossil fuel and wood burning appliances - such as boilers, heaters and cookers - checked by an appropriately registered engineer before the winter sets ...

Carbon monoxide poisonings in Armenian regions
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Armenian Police Force's Martuni City Precinct on Sunday received a call that two residents of Artsvanist village were taken to hospital, for symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. It was found out they were poisoned at home because of carbon monoxide ...