“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” Aesop (Born approx. 600 BC, bio link)
Health Care Providers,
How much carbon monoxide poisoning training did you receive?Whether you are currently an administrator or active health care provider, the answer is most likely similar to these; “very little”, “none that I can remember”, “less than 15 minutes”. Lack of education about carbon monoxide has resulted in limited testing of patients for CO poisoning symptoms that just don’t seem to go away.
Interviewed physicians & health care professionals admittedly have received little more than symptomatic discourses on acute exposures where the consequences of rapid and extreme levels of the poison have resulted in severe oxidative stress, disability and death. None would disagree, that supplemental oxygen therapy or pressurized oxygen therapy is the antidote for acute CO poisoning.
Many, maybe most medical practitioner’s diagnostic habits however, 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, and disorientation, seizures, complicated angina, blurry vision, rapid heartbeat, Parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and other 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.
The need to test symptomatic patients daily is becoming more and more vital as exposures to the poisonous gas increases as the reliance on fossil fuels in the human culture continues and increases. This program demonstrates that an inexpensive, non-invasive carboxyhemoglobin or COHb% test can yield vital information in less than 30 seconds of time.
Excerpt from: Carbon Monoxide Safety for Health Care Providers
By, Bob Dwyer CSME, Carbon Monoxide Safety
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