Latest Carbon monoxide poisoning Stories

An early Wednesday fire in a first-floor video-viewing shop in a seven-story building in Osaka, Japan, killed 15 people and injured 10 more, authorities said. All those killed were men who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning or inhalation burns, Kyodo news service reported. The video business had 32 rooms, each equipped with a reclining sofa, TV and video recorder. It was occupied by 26 customers, two staff members and the manager at the time of the fire, Kyoto reported. One customer who...

By BROUN, Britton DRINKING may have clouded the judgment of two men who died of carbon monoxide poisoning when they used a barbecue to heat their tiny camping hut, police say. A store manager from Howick in Auckland, 35, and a Hamilton stock- purchaser, 50, both originally from South Africa, died in their bunks early on Sunday after bringing a small charcoal-burning barbecue into their Waikato camping hut while on a fishing trip. Their names should be made public today. Jason Basson,...

BISHKEK. Aug 4 (Interfax) - Three miners have died in south Kyrgyzstan as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, the country's Emergencies Ministry told Interfax on Monday. "Three coal miners, born 1991, 1967, and 1966, died at a private coal mine in the village of Kok-Yangak [in the Jalal-Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan] as a result of being poisoned with carbon monoxide," the ministry said. Early reports suggest that the miners' death was caused by a breach of safety regulations. The...

By Ben Winslow and Aaron Falk Deseret News A man died and 13 other people were poisoned by carbon monoxide in separate incidents Tuesday in Ogden and Glen Canyon. Around 2:45 a.m., eight members of an Arizona family staying on a house boat in Rock Creek Bay on Lake Powell became ill and sent out a distress call, according to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area officials. The 62-year-old man who first noticed the problem and began rousing members of his extended family suffered a heart...

ANAHEIM, Calif., May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- With the financial support of Sechrist Industries, Inc., The Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery (CMIS) at the Ohio State University Medical Center has begun testing the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen medicine on experimental stroke models. CMIS is a multidisciplinary center dedicated to excellence in patient care, clinical training, research and outcomes studies pertaining to the techniques and technology of minimally invasive surgery. Currently...

By Coulange, M Barthelemy, A; Hug, F; Thierry, A L; De Haro, L Coulange M, Barthelemy A, Hug F, Thierry AL, De Haro L. Reliability of new pulse CO-oximeter in victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. Undersea Hyperb Med 2008; 35(2): 107-111. Study objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability of noninvasive real-time measurement of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) using a pulse CO-oximeter in victims of carbon monoxide poisoning (COP). Methods: During the 7-month study period,...

MILWAUKEE, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center's new hyperbaric chamber will triple the hospital's capacity to treat patients with hyperbaric oxygen therapy and improve its regional wound care services. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080417/AQTH107) The 52-foot-long, 66-ton chamber, the second-largest in the U.S. and the largest in Wisconsin, will be able to treat up to 24 patients at one time. The chamber was installed today after being lifted by a...

When the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas opened 15 years ago, it was one of the only units of its kind in the region. Originally used to treat decompression illness in SCUBA divers and carbon monoxide poisoning, the science of hyperbaric medicine slowly expanded as researchers theorized it could treat other ailments. As the role of hyperbaric medicine has expanded over the years, so has the unit at Presbyterian Hospital. The team of specialized-trained doctors and...

Screening all emergency room patients for carbon monoxide poisoning is a simple yet potentially life-saving practice that can be done even in a high-volume urban hospital, according to new research by emergency physicians at Rhode Island Hospital.In the largest study of its kind, more than 14,000 patients visiting the hospital's emergency department were routinely screened for exposure to carbon monoxide (CO), a highly toxic gas that can cause brain and heart damage and even death....

Toxic levels of gas can affect heart muscleLack of oxygen isn't the only way that carbon monoxide (CO) damages the heart, say researchers at Rhode Island Hospital. According to the findings of a new study, published in the January issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, CO also causes direct damage to the heart muscle, separate from the effects of oxygen deprivation, which reduces the heart's pumping capacity and permanently impairs cardiac function."These findings suggest that heart damage...