“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 ...
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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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