“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” Isaac Asimov (1920-1992, bio link)
Solving one problem and creating another
There is an article from an April 20, 1918 Scientific American Magazine that includes a photo of a barge of sewer pipe being towed out of a small harbor. The article accompanying the photo describes the proud times when Cleveland, Ohio would be able to take care of the problem of raw sewage and dump it out, around 2500 feet into the water of Lake Erie. It seemed like such a big lake. Who would have ever thought this would become a hazard later when the initial problem was solved? (History can also show us it wasn’t happening just in Lake Erie and that we might even feel a little bit ashamed about it now. )
Industry and city and government and even citizens worldwide apparently didn’t seem to think dumping waste and poisons into fresh water or sea water was that big of a deal, we were making progress. There has been some discussion as to whether common sense, science, regulation or odd rashes on the bodies of swimmers began to change that foul habit that unfortunately continues still in some places.
So in the same sense, our culture of combustion and the products, travel, recreation, comfort and the industry it creates has caught us up into mistakes of actions that may be or have been deadly, unhealthy and costly. Some mistakes cannot be corrected. Some have dire consequences. Carbon monoxide poisoning is the most personal villain.
Since around 1850 and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the burgeoning of the Human Combustion Culture historical records show humanity dumping combustion gases directly into our open atmosphere at ever increasing rates. These are gases in addition to the naturally occurring volcano and forest fire combustion gases.
The sky still looks a lot bigger than Lake Erie did in 1918. We apparently have not corrected our instincts to spoil while solving problems in our efforts to build products, recreate, generate energy, solve health & sanitation issues and make money doing it. We even fight about how much is too much, and what is acceptable destruction. The advances in the use of combustion technology certainly solved many economic problems but at what consequences? Will we have to wait until catastrophe is felt to react? Do we have to wait until a river catches on fire to begin to fix the problem? That seems to be our instinct. See Cuyahoga River Fire
Do we solve a pollution problem with more combustion? Can we learn to live safer in this combustion culture while we wean ourselves from its’ entrapment? Do we even want to? Be careful with combustion gases. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links
A Silent Killer: Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning .
Student Health Care Center
University of Florida By Mary Devlin
Summer months bring heavy rain, tropical storms, and hurricanes that can all lead to power outages. If you use alternative sources of energy during these power outages such as a generator then you are at risk for ...
Slaving over hot stove in stuffy kitchen could be more dangerous than standing ...
Daily Mail
They found very low carbon monoxide levels in the kitchen of the rural house. But when the gas cookers were turned on in the flats, carbon monoxide levels started to spike. The gas cookers were also a significant source of nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
Industry Says EPA Findings Too High
Wheeling Intelligencer
A recent statement from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson stated, "Methane, when released directly to the atmosphere, is a potent greenhouse gas - more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide." Jackson said the first phase of the stricter standards ...
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Carbon Monoxide News - June 6, 2012
“Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880, bio link)
What are “normal” levels of carbon monoxide?
Some of the information reported in news stories can be misleading. Quoted participants are also occasionally misquoted and then the context becomes confusing. Over the years and to date, it is often suggested that “normal” levels of carbon monoxide inside homes should be less than 70 parts per million (PPM) of carbon monoxide because that is when the alarms go off.
In other articles the “normal” levels are suggested to be below 35 PPM, 25 PPM or no more than 9 PPM. Though the experts may have different opinions, advanced medical research indicates lower level exposures to carbon monoxide gases are more of a concern than the conventional and anecdotal wisdom often times presented. Besides, if fire & emergency rescuers are wearing breathing apparatus as low as 10 PPM of CO for many divisions, and almost exclusively the rest when 35+ PPM is reached, this would lead you to believe that there is a pretty good consensus going that above 10 PPM is abnormal.
These references to “normal” are dangerous to suggest and could result in chronic exposures to this deadly gas and lead to unnecessary injury or death to some elderly people and people with heart disease known and unknown. They can also present difficulties, injury or death to pregnant women, their fetus, and to infants or anyone with respiratory problems and others of “vulnerable” health.
In these terms, a reference to normal might actually be better stated by the governing entity as what is acceptable. But if you don’t accommodate for those of vulnerable health by only using carbon monoxide alarms that must wait hours or never to alert the occupants that they are in an atmosphere harmful to them, their suffering may endure without relief. In this context, do vulnerable people visit other homes, a workplace, store, restaurant, office building, recreation center, school or church? Who is responsible for the air? And remember, the medical community as a whole has not been addressing the symptoms presented as possible carbon monoxide poisoning as they most easily could.
Carbon monoxide levels that may be considered “normal” inside a home or building should be no more than the levels found outside the home or building. There may be “spikes” of occurrence inside where CO from cigarette smoke, candles, incense, unvented and poorly combusting gas appliances or solid fuel cooking gases may be generated into the air. Poorly combusting, or damaged gas, oil, wood or coal heating appliances, cooking systems or water heaters & boilers may also contribute to above “normal” levels of CO.
Automotive exhaust containing CO may also enter homes and buildings and be the cause of above “normal” levels. The Carbon Monoxide News link is filled with accidents of CO poisoning occurring from misuse of gasoline generators, propane floor scrubbers, barbeque devices, gasoline powered snow mobiles, boats, power scrubbers and other such systems.
Normal levels of carbon monoxide outside will vary due to what is burning or combusting, how many, how they are burning and is the wind washing it away. Unfortunately, what is "normal" in outside air in some of the world's cities, is well above the evacuation levels for inside air in other cities worldwide as well. Yes, outside air can be abnormal, and harmful from conception to death. Take care; be aware. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links
73 from Scottsdale rehab center treated for carbon monoxide symptoms
Tucson Citizen
Scottsdale fire officials said 73 people were treated for symptoms of carbon monoxide after they were evacuated from a rehabilitation center near Osborn and Miller roads in Scottsdale shortly before noon Tuesday. The carbon monoxide leak was traced to ...
Smoke, carbon monoxide detectors become mandatory Friday
Beckley Register-Herald
... A man's death last winter in a hotel along Corridor G paved the way for a major change in West Virginia law, requiring commercial dwelling units , health care facilities and other buildings where people sleep to install carbon monoxide detectors.
Maine officials issue carbon monoxide warning
WGME
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine health officials say carbon monoxide poisonings present risks in and around people's summer camps. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that each year, state officials see a handful of poisonings, ...
Carbon monoxide in medical science; good news
Targeting organs with therapeutic carbon monoxide
Chemistry World
CO has a role in the body as a biological signaling molecule (as a neurotransmitter and a blood vessel relaxant, for example) and its delivery to tissues for therapeutic use for conditions such as cardiovascular disease and organ transplantation is ...
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880, bio link)
What are “normal” levels of carbon monoxide?
Some of the information reported in news stories can be misleading. Quoted participants are also occasionally misquoted and then the context becomes confusing. Over the years and to date, it is often suggested that “normal” levels of carbon monoxide inside homes should be less than 70 parts per million (PPM) of carbon monoxide because that is when the alarms go off.
In other articles the “normal” levels are suggested to be below 35 PPM, 25 PPM or no more than 9 PPM. Though the experts may have different opinions, advanced medical research indicates lower level exposures to carbon monoxide gases are more of a concern than the conventional and anecdotal wisdom often times presented. Besides, if fire & emergency rescuers are wearing breathing apparatus as low as 10 PPM of CO for many divisions, and almost exclusively the rest when 35+ PPM is reached, this would lead you to believe that there is a pretty good consensus going that above 10 PPM is abnormal.
These references to “normal” are dangerous to suggest and could result in chronic exposures to this deadly gas and lead to unnecessary injury or death to some elderly people and people with heart disease known and unknown. They can also present difficulties, injury or death to pregnant women, their fetus, and to infants or anyone with respiratory problems and others of “vulnerable” health.
In these terms, a reference to normal might actually be better stated by the governing entity as what is acceptable. But if you don’t accommodate for those of vulnerable health by only using carbon monoxide alarms that must wait hours or never to alert the occupants that they are in an atmosphere harmful to them, their suffering may endure without relief. In this context, do vulnerable people visit other homes, a workplace, store, restaurant, office building, recreation center, school or church? Who is responsible for the air? And remember, the medical community as a whole has not been addressing the symptoms presented as possible carbon monoxide poisoning as they most easily could.
Carbon monoxide levels that may be considered “normal” inside a home or building should be no more than the levels found outside the home or building. There may be “spikes” of occurrence inside where CO from cigarette smoke, candles, incense, unvented and poorly combusting gas appliances or solid fuel cooking gases may be generated into the air. Poorly combusting, or damaged gas, oil, wood or coal heating appliances, cooking systems or water heaters & boilers may also contribute to above “normal” levels of CO.
Automotive exhaust containing CO may also enter homes and buildings and be the cause of above “normal” levels. The Carbon Monoxide News link is filled with accidents of CO poisoning occurring from misuse of gasoline generators, propane floor scrubbers, barbeque devices, gasoline powered snow mobiles, boats, power scrubbers and other such systems.
Normal levels of carbon monoxide outside will vary due to what is burning or combusting, how many, how they are burning and is the wind washing it away. Unfortunately, what is "normal" in outside air in some of the world's cities, is well above the evacuation levels for inside air in other cities worldwide as well. Yes, outside air can be abnormal, and harmful from conception to death. Take care; be aware. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links
73 from Scottsdale rehab center treated for carbon monoxide symptoms
Tucson Citizen
Scottsdale fire officials said 73 people were treated for symptoms of carbon monoxide after they were evacuated from a rehabilitation center near Osborn and Miller roads in Scottsdale shortly before noon Tuesday. The carbon monoxide leak was traced to ...
Smoke, carbon monoxide detectors become mandatory Friday
Beckley Register-Herald
... A man's death last winter in a hotel along Corridor G paved the way for a major change in West Virginia law, requiring commercial dwelling units , health care facilities and other buildings where people sleep to install carbon monoxide detectors.
Maine officials issue carbon monoxide warning
WGME
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine health officials say carbon monoxide poisonings present risks in and around people's summer camps. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that each year, state officials see a handful of poisonings, ...
Carbon monoxide in medical science; good news
Targeting organs with therapeutic carbon monoxide
Chemistry World
CO has a role in the body as a biological signaling molecule (as a neurotransmitter and a blood vessel relaxant, for example) and its delivery to tissues for therapeutic use for conditions such as cardiovascular disease and organ transplantation is ...
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Carbon Monoxide News - June 5, 2012
“Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.”
William Feather (1889-1991, bio link)
Are health care providers paying attention to carbon monoxide?
Many medical practitioner’s diagnostic habits most often exclude testing patients for carbon monoxide poisoning despite the symptoms being presented.
These symptoms include reactions that mimic or have similarity to food poisoning, flu, headache, nausea, tiredness, depression, weakness, disorientation, seizures, complicated angina, blurry vision, rapid heartbeat, Parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s symptoms. Despite all of these known symptoms, they remain to not be enough to instigate testing to confirm or rule out the fact of oxygen displacement by CO as the causal factor. New generations of health professionals may be required to address these symptoms with tests administered as easily as blood pressure, weight & temperature.
Ironically, many of these symptoms are treated with medications that may only numb or dress up the symptoms without providing relief, they may only result in an increase in cognitive or psychological maladies and methemoglobin surges. An inexpensive, non-invasive carboxyhemoglobin % (COHb%) test can yield vital information in less than 30 seconds of time. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Family poisoned by carbon monoxide exhaust from travel trailer ...
ktbs.com
Most people have heard the warnings about carbon monoxide poisoning, but for one local family the danger hit close to home.
Six hospitalised with carbon monoxide poisoning near Hitchin
Comet 24 By Laura Burge
SIX people were hospitalised with carbon monoxide poisoning after taking their barbecue inside their house for warmth.
Will the medical community hear the cries?
Sons' plea after duo's fumes deaths
Harborough Mail
The family of a couple who died after breathing toxic fumes from a faulty coal fire in Essex have called for compulsory carbon monoxide tests in hospitals and homes. The bodies of Pam and Les Cox were discovered by their sons, sitting arm in arm ... After the hearing, their sons, Ian and Neil, urged hospitals to test patients for carbon monoxide poisoning and called for more homes to be fitted with detectors to prevent similar tragedies. (son) Ian, 32, said: "We don't blame the hospital but maybe they should look at bringing in a mandatory test."It's such a simple test for a hospital to have. We were given it in the ambulance afterwards and it took two minutes to test our oxygen levels. It could prevent someone else going back home and being killed. "All homes should have an alarm fitted. For the cost of £25 it could save your life and your family's life."
Huddersfield mum Stacey Rodgers backs campaign to highlight danger of ...
Huddersfield Examiner
And Stacey Rodgers – who lost her son Dominic to carbon-monoxide poisoning – hopes the efforts of the campaign aimed at holidaymakers will save lives. She is backing the campaign by CO Angels to highlight the dangers of placing barbecues in tents and ...
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
William Feather (1889-1991, bio link)
Are health care providers paying attention to carbon monoxide?
Many medical practitioner’s diagnostic habits most often exclude testing patients for carbon monoxide poisoning despite the symptoms being presented.
These symptoms include reactions that mimic or have similarity to food poisoning, flu, headache, nausea, tiredness, depression, weakness, disorientation, seizures, complicated angina, blurry vision, rapid heartbeat, Parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s symptoms. Despite all of these known symptoms, they remain to not be enough to instigate testing to confirm or rule out the fact of oxygen displacement by CO as the causal factor. New generations of health professionals may be required to address these symptoms with tests administered as easily as blood pressure, weight & temperature.
Ironically, many of these symptoms are treated with medications that may only numb or dress up the symptoms without providing relief, they may only result in an increase in cognitive or psychological maladies and methemoglobin surges. An inexpensive, non-invasive carboxyhemoglobin % (COHb%) test can yield vital information in less than 30 seconds of time. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Family poisoned by carbon monoxide exhaust from travel trailer ...
ktbs.com
Most people have heard the warnings about carbon monoxide poisoning, but for one local family the danger hit close to home.
Six hospitalised with carbon monoxide poisoning near Hitchin
Comet 24 By Laura Burge
SIX people were hospitalised with carbon monoxide poisoning after taking their barbecue inside their house for warmth.
Will the medical community hear the cries?
Sons' plea after duo's fumes deaths
Harborough Mail
The family of a couple who died after breathing toxic fumes from a faulty coal fire in Essex have called for compulsory carbon monoxide tests in hospitals and homes. The bodies of Pam and Les Cox were discovered by their sons, sitting arm in arm ... After the hearing, their sons, Ian and Neil, urged hospitals to test patients for carbon monoxide poisoning and called for more homes to be fitted with detectors to prevent similar tragedies. (son) Ian, 32, said: "We don't blame the hospital but maybe they should look at bringing in a mandatory test."It's such a simple test for a hospital to have. We were given it in the ambulance afterwards and it took two minutes to test our oxygen levels. It could prevent someone else going back home and being killed. "All homes should have an alarm fitted. For the cost of £25 it could save your life and your family's life."
Huddersfield mum Stacey Rodgers backs campaign to highlight danger of ...
Huddersfield Examiner
And Stacey Rodgers – who lost her son Dominic to carbon-monoxide poisoning – hopes the efforts of the campaign aimed at holidaymakers will save lives. She is backing the campaign by CO Angels to highlight the dangers of placing barbecues in tents and ...
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
Monday, June 4, 2012
Carbon Monoxide News - June 4, 2012
“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, bio link)
What can I do if I or someone I know has been CO poisoned? This answer may have several responses and would depend upon the severity of the symptoms. Call 911 (or your country’s emergency call #) and get out of the contaminated space if possible. The attending emergency technicians may be equipped with pulse CO-oxymeter or breath analysis modules for immediate, non-invasive carboxyhemoglobin % measurements with the victims. Their standard therapy requires supplemental oxygen, ventilatory support and monitoring the heart rate. Traditional testing requires intravenous blood gas sampling. High exposures require hyperbaric systems to force the CO to unload from the blood cells and replace with oxygen.
Since we know the symptoms and we know the sources and how to measure CO in air, in blood and in combustion systems how is it so easily missed? If you don’t test, you don’t know. If you have symptoms, get tested for carbon monoxide poisoning as soon as possible. It doesn’t have to hurt. Get a low level carbon monoxide alarm or wear a personal monitor when you are out and about. Take responsibility for your own protection. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, bio link)
What can I do if I or someone I know has been CO poisoned? This answer may have several responses and would depend upon the severity of the symptoms. Call 911 (or your country’s emergency call #) and get out of the contaminated space if possible. The attending emergency technicians may be equipped with pulse CO-oxymeter or breath analysis modules for immediate, non-invasive carboxyhemoglobin % measurements with the victims. Their standard therapy requires supplemental oxygen, ventilatory support and monitoring the heart rate. Traditional testing requires intravenous blood gas sampling. High exposures require hyperbaric systems to force the CO to unload from the blood cells and replace with oxygen.
Since we know the symptoms and we know the sources and how to measure CO in air, in blood and in combustion systems how is it so easily missed? If you don’t test, you don’t know. If you have symptoms, get tested for carbon monoxide poisoning as soon as possible. It doesn’t have to hurt. Get a low level carbon monoxide alarm or wear a personal monitor when you are out and about. Take responsibility for your own protection. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Carbon Monoxide News - June 3, 2012
“The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.”
Jean Toomer (1894-1967, bio link)
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon monoxide when inhaled, displaces oxygen and sets a course for various resultant consequences of asphyxia. CO is a commonly occurring gas produced where fuels like gasoline, oil, natural gas, wood, coal & propane are burned to generate heat for work, recreation, comfort & other human requested uses. Many systems can be tuned to produce minimal levels of CO. Some systems like gasoline fueled automobiles still produce levels immediately hazardous to health and life.
When breathed in, CO displaces oxygen in blood, bonds with hemoglobin, forming COHb or carboxyhemoglobin; also referenced as carboxyhemoglobinemia. Reduction of oxygen in blood is detrimental to health.
It is known that CO has an affinity to hemoglobin binding sites 200 times greater than oxygen. Fetal hemoglobin has an even greater affinity for oxygen than the mother’s because of needed oxygen reserves required for rapid growth; carbon monoxide binds even more aggressively then and related anomalies occur. CO does not easily unload from these cells and is why oxygen therapy, ventilatory support and monitoring the heart rate are critical to recovery. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
Jean Toomer (1894-1967, bio link)
Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Carbon monoxide when inhaled, displaces oxygen and sets a course for various resultant consequences of asphyxia. CO is a commonly occurring gas produced where fuels like gasoline, oil, natural gas, wood, coal & propane are burned to generate heat for work, recreation, comfort & other human requested uses. Many systems can be tuned to produce minimal levels of CO. Some systems like gasoline fueled automobiles still produce levels immediately hazardous to health and life.
When breathed in, CO displaces oxygen in blood, bonds with hemoglobin, forming COHb or carboxyhemoglobin; also referenced as carboxyhemoglobinemia. Reduction of oxygen in blood is detrimental to health.
It is known that CO has an affinity to hemoglobin binding sites 200 times greater than oxygen. Fetal hemoglobin has an even greater affinity for oxygen than the mother’s because of needed oxygen reserves required for rapid growth; carbon monoxide binds even more aggressively then and related anomalies occur. CO does not easily unload from these cells and is why oxygen therapy, ventilatory support and monitoring the heart rate are critical to recovery. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Carbon Monoxide News - June 2, 2012
“If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.”
Polykarp Kusch (1911-1993, bio link)
Campers be aware of carbon monoxide when around a campfire’s mesmerizing trance.
Carbon monoxide is the result of incomplete combustion. The quality of combustion is dependent upon and rated against the quality of the fuel and its potential to provide energy cleanly, without CO production under ideal conditions. In order for there to be complete combustion of all the fuel with little or trace amounts of carbon monoxide, the fuel and air mixtures must be controlled. Too much air on a combusting fuel will reduce the flame temperature in places and result in incomplete combustion.
Wood used in campfires and some fireplaces for example, is used in less than ideal conditions for complete burning of the fuel. Therefore, smoke and CO are produced. The wood used in recreational campfires has an unknown Btu (heat value) & moisture content. There is not much of a way to control the air & fuel mixtures; perhaps wind or breeze control prevails in the setting. This contributes to less than ideal conditions for complete burning.
There is not any type of flame containment other than perhaps ground spreading reduction barriers like rocks or dirt. When air cannot be controlled in this process, combustion cannot be controlled in the way we want to control the flame of natural gas or heating oil, propane or the other combustion fuels we buy. The outer edges of the campfire flame are also cooler due to the flooding of cooler air towards the fire. In some parts of the campfire the temperature is not hot enough for complete combustion to be sustained. “Who is responsible for the air you breathe?” Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Link: Canada
Gas claims 250 lives a year in Canada
London Free Press By ROB PARKER, Special to QMI Agency
Every year in Canada, there are approximately 1000 reported poisonings and 250 deaths due to carbon monoxide. Every city in Ontario has legislative authority and can pass bylaws requiring carbon monoxide detectors be installed. Several cities, including Toronto, have enacted such bylaws.
In Ontario, carbon monoxide detectors are required in new homes, but the legislature is moving toward making detectors mandatory in homes containing a garage or fuel-burning appliance such as a furnace, hot water heater, stove, dryer or gas or wood burning stove or fireplace. As of April 17, Bill 20, (Hawkins Gignac Act) was ordered for third reading in the legislature. If and when Bill 20 is passed, all homes and apartments containing a fuel-burning appliance or a storage garage will require carbon monoxide detectors to be installed adjacent to each sleeping area of the residence. This bill will amend the Fire Protection and Prevention Act 1997.
In 2008, an Ontario family of four died of carbon monoxide poisoning and most recently in January 2012 ...
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
Polykarp Kusch (1911-1993, bio link)
Campers be aware of carbon monoxide when around a campfire’s mesmerizing trance.
Carbon monoxide is the result of incomplete combustion. The quality of combustion is dependent upon and rated against the quality of the fuel and its potential to provide energy cleanly, without CO production under ideal conditions. In order for there to be complete combustion of all the fuel with little or trace amounts of carbon monoxide, the fuel and air mixtures must be controlled. Too much air on a combusting fuel will reduce the flame temperature in places and result in incomplete combustion.
Wood used in campfires and some fireplaces for example, is used in less than ideal conditions for complete burning of the fuel. Therefore, smoke and CO are produced. The wood used in recreational campfires has an unknown Btu (heat value) & moisture content. There is not much of a way to control the air & fuel mixtures; perhaps wind or breeze control prevails in the setting. This contributes to less than ideal conditions for complete burning.
There is not any type of flame containment other than perhaps ground spreading reduction barriers like rocks or dirt. When air cannot be controlled in this process, combustion cannot be controlled in the way we want to control the flame of natural gas or heating oil, propane or the other combustion fuels we buy. The outer edges of the campfire flame are also cooler due to the flooding of cooler air towards the fire. In some parts of the campfire the temperature is not hot enough for complete combustion to be sustained. “Who is responsible for the air you breathe?” Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Link: Canada
Gas claims 250 lives a year in Canada
London Free Press By ROB PARKER, Special to QMI Agency
Every year in Canada, there are approximately 1000 reported poisonings and 250 deaths due to carbon monoxide. Every city in Ontario has legislative authority and can pass bylaws requiring carbon monoxide detectors be installed. Several cities, including Toronto, have enacted such bylaws.
In Ontario, carbon monoxide detectors are required in new homes, but the legislature is moving toward making detectors mandatory in homes containing a garage or fuel-burning appliance such as a furnace, hot water heater, stove, dryer or gas or wood burning stove or fireplace. As of April 17, Bill 20, (Hawkins Gignac Act) was ordered for third reading in the legislature. If and when Bill 20 is passed, all homes and apartments containing a fuel-burning appliance or a storage garage will require carbon monoxide detectors to be installed adjacent to each sleeping area of the residence. This bill will amend the Fire Protection and Prevention Act 1997.
In 2008, an Ontario family of four died of carbon monoxide poisoning and most recently in January 2012 ...
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
Friday, June 1, 2012
Carbon Monoxide News - June 1, 2012
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” Richard Bach (1936, about)
When carbon monoxide is breathed in, it reduces the amount of oxygen delivered to each cell in your body. This can begin a chain reaction of health complications.
What are the symptoms of CO poisoning?
CO poisoning mimics many common illnesses, such as food poisoning. It is most frequently misdiagnosed as a flu-like syndrome. The following is a list of a few common symptoms.
· headaches · loss of hearing · dizziness · depression · blurry vision · cardiac arrest · disorientation· respiratory failure · weakness · vomiting · coma · painful discomfort · loss of consciousness ·muscle aches & soreness · memory disorders · seizures · nausea · rapid heartbeat · chronic tiredness · slurry speech · and additional symptoms of illnesses
This list is not meant to serve as a diagnosis of carbon monoxide poisoning. It is meant to provide general information on poisoning symptoms. Oxidative stress causes a chain reaction in the body due to the interruption of oxygen intake. Get out and stay out of CO atmosphere’s.
Consult with a health care provider who can test you when you are presenting symptoms, particularly if they are chronic or frequent in nature.
Knowledgeable health care providers, using non-invasive testing can quickly and accurately begin to determine if carbon monoxide poisoning is occuring. A blood sample followed by lab test verifications may also be the method used in facilities who have not yet modernized to these painless methodologies. See (See RAD-57)
You could also own a low level carbon monoxide alarm with a digital display and determine for yourself if you or others in the vicinity of the alarm are breathing in carbon monoxide at levels not distinguished by the most commonly used alarms! See CO Experts. You have to ask your self "Who is responsible for the air I breathe?" Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO NEWS LINKS
Governor's Park high-rise evacuated because of high carbon monoxide levels
Denver Post
He was not sure how the carbon monoxide levels were detected, but said the source is under investigation. Residents have been evacuated, and the fire department is in the process of ventilating the building. He said safe carbon monoxide readers were ...
Dozens evacuated following carbon monoxide scare at Raleigh ...
triadnews14.com
Emergency officials are evaluating approximately 60 people, mainly children, after a carbon monoxide scare at Foundations Academy in Raleigh. It happened ...
1 dead, another hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak
7Online WSVN-TV
Police are investigating after one person died and another was transported to the hospital after a carbon monoxide leak. Miami-Dade Police and fire rescue responded to a home at 8756 NW 149 Terrace, in Miami Lakes, late Thursday morning.
Possible carbon monoxide poisoning in southwest Edmonton
Edmonton Journal
Three people are in hospital with what appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning, says Tim Wilson of Fire Rescue Services. Fire Rescue Services were called to the single-family home near Falconer Place and Falconer Boulevard about 4 pm Thursday.
Our atmosphere
MHI-designed coal power plant to convert CO2 into fertilizer
Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Thursday it has received an order from a U.S. developer for the basic design of a partially federally funded project to build a coal gasification power station in California, to be used in conjunction with a plant to recover discharged carbon dioxide for use in the production of fertilizer.
Cosmic calculations: Advance will help astrophysicists explore where stars are ...
Phys.Org
Whereas carbon monoxide — the second-most abundant molecule in space — is easily detected by spectrometers, such is not the case for hydrogen. Despite ranking as the most abundant molecule in space, hydrogen emits and absorbs very little light in the ...
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The young eaglets have begun flying out of the nest and back.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
When carbon monoxide is breathed in, it reduces the amount of oxygen delivered to each cell in your body. This can begin a chain reaction of health complications.
What are the symptoms of CO poisoning?
CO poisoning mimics many common illnesses, such as food poisoning. It is most frequently misdiagnosed as a flu-like syndrome. The following is a list of a few common symptoms.
· headaches · loss of hearing · dizziness · depression · blurry vision · cardiac arrest · disorientation· respiratory failure · weakness · vomiting · coma · painful discomfort · loss of consciousness ·muscle aches & soreness · memory disorders · seizures · nausea · rapid heartbeat · chronic tiredness · slurry speech · and additional symptoms of illnesses
This list is not meant to serve as a diagnosis of carbon monoxide poisoning. It is meant to provide general information on poisoning symptoms. Oxidative stress causes a chain reaction in the body due to the interruption of oxygen intake. Get out and stay out of CO atmosphere’s.
Consult with a health care provider who can test you when you are presenting symptoms, particularly if they are chronic or frequent in nature.
Knowledgeable health care providers, using non-invasive testing can quickly and accurately begin to determine if carbon monoxide poisoning is occuring. A blood sample followed by lab test verifications may also be the method used in facilities who have not yet modernized to these painless methodologies. See (See RAD-57)
You could also own a low level carbon monoxide alarm with a digital display and determine for yourself if you or others in the vicinity of the alarm are breathing in carbon monoxide at levels not distinguished by the most commonly used alarms! See CO Experts. You have to ask your self "Who is responsible for the air I breathe?" Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO NEWS LINKS
Governor's Park high-rise evacuated because of high carbon monoxide levels
Denver Post
He was not sure how the carbon monoxide levels were detected, but said the source is under investigation. Residents have been evacuated, and the fire department is in the process of ventilating the building. He said safe carbon monoxide readers were ...
Dozens evacuated following carbon monoxide scare at Raleigh ...
triadnews14.com
Emergency officials are evaluating approximately 60 people, mainly children, after a carbon monoxide scare at Foundations Academy in Raleigh. It happened ...
1 dead, another hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak
7Online WSVN-TV
Police are investigating after one person died and another was transported to the hospital after a carbon monoxide leak. Miami-Dade Police and fire rescue responded to a home at 8756 NW 149 Terrace, in Miami Lakes, late Thursday morning.
Possible carbon monoxide poisoning in southwest Edmonton
Edmonton Journal
Three people are in hospital with what appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning, says Tim Wilson of Fire Rescue Services. Fire Rescue Services were called to the single-family home near Falconer Place and Falconer Boulevard about 4 pm Thursday.
Our atmosphere
MHI-designed coal power plant to convert CO2 into fertilizer
Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Thursday it has received an order from a U.S. developer for the basic design of a partially federally funded project to build a coal gasification power station in California, to be used in conjunction with a plant to recover discharged carbon dioxide for use in the production of fertilizer.
Cosmic calculations: Advance will help astrophysicists explore where stars are ...
Phys.Org
Whereas carbon monoxide — the second-most abundant molecule in space — is easily detected by spectrometers, such is not the case for hydrogen. Despite ranking as the most abundant molecule in space, hydrogen emits and absorbs very little light in the ...
Carbon Monoxide Survivor A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
Placed here for now for something other than carbon monoxide news.
The young eaglets have begun flying out of the nest and back.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
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