“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, bio link)
Carbon monoxide in medical trials
Carbon monoxide mediates the anti-apoptotic effects of heme ...
Thee Journal of Biological Chemistry
Carbon monoxide mediates the anti-apoptotic effects of heme oxygenase-1 in medulloblastoma DAOY cells via K+ channel inhibition. Moza M. A. Al-Owais, ...
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 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. 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
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