“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”
Frank Herbert (1920-1986, bio link)
There is not a good enough reason to avoid testing people for carbon monoxide poisoning when the symptoms are presented. To understand carbon monoxide poisoning, one must know the culture of the victim. The victim or patient, like ourselves are inhabitants of a combustion culture. Situations where people breath in combustion gases and experience oxygen displacement health symptoms are quite common, yet these conditions of CO poisoning are not commonly recognized because there has been no testing and, quite frankly the health care provider has not been trained thoroughly on carbon monoxide poisoning.
This publication repeats the question at every turn, “Could this health symptom be influenced or be compounded by carbon monoxide poisoning?” Measure the complainant or victim and measure the air immediately.
If you want to know what normal levels of carbon monoxide are for a patient, you are going to have to have comparative and timely test samples. A change in blood pressure alerts the technician and physician; a COHb% deviation accompanying presented symptoms would also give them notice. What is the value in not testing?
You can ask a patient questions about their workplace, home environment and other discovery queries to discover if a combustion source may be contributing to or be the cause of the symptoms presented. Testing the patient COHb% level as soon as the symptoms are presented would be beneficial. Testing the air where the patient has been would be of critical value if concerning levels were found in the victim of the poisoning. Be careful about sending a person back into an environment that may be poisoning them or by giving them the instructions, “You had better get your home tested,” if you have not tested them specifically for CO poisoning.
Health care professionals have no more excuses, there has been enough technology and knowledge about low level carbon monoxide poisoning available long enough to test when the symptoms are presented; no excuse is good enough for the afflicted. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Summer Camps and Carbon Monoxide Poisioning
211maine.org
The Maine Center for Disease Control is offering tips to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning during summer activities at camps. Carbon monoxide is a very toxic ...
Charity calls on MPs to give caravan carbon monoxide warning
Caravan Times
Following a series of recent tragedies that have claimed several lives, the Carbon Monoxide Awareness charity says that more must be done to educate the public, and believes that manufacturers should put warnings on barbecues. Carbon monoxide is given ...
Israeli technology turns greenhouse gas into fuel
Jerusalem Post
The innovation uses concentrated solar energy to dissociate carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen, as well as water into hydrogen and oxygen, allowing for the synthesis of the carbon monoxide and hydrogen into a gaseous hydrocarbon mixture ...
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 (Low level carbon monoxide monitor)
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
