Latest Carbon monoxide Stories
New Evidence from London Ambulance Service Study Shows Five Masimo Rad-57 Pulse CO-Oximeters(TM) Detected 83 Unsuspected CO Poisonings in One Year--Over a Third of the UK Reported Annual CO Poisonings IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI), the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Measure-Through Motion and Low-Perfusion pulse oximetry, today announced that in a newly published report, the UK House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Gas Safety Group (APPGSG)...
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) urge families to inspect, protect and detect to safeguard loved ones from the 'Silent Killer' NORTHBROOK, Ill., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitter cold weather can bring more than just frosty mornings and runny noses. Along with the winter chill come the dangers of deadly carbon monoxide (CO), whose odorless reach extends into household living spaces as more families turn to alternative methods -- such as a...
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD), a leading supplier of industrial gases and equipment, has completed the manufacturing of a world-scale carbon monoxide (CO) coldbox at its cryogenic equipment manufacturing facility in Caojing, Shanghai for Yangzi Petrochemical Corporation, a subsidiary of Sinopec Corporation. It is the largest CO coldbox and the largest workshop-built CO coldbox that Air Products has ever constructed for its customers globally....
New computer visualization technology developed by the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing has helped astrophysicists understand that gravity plays a larger role than previously thought in deep space's vast, star-forming molecular clouds.The insight, to be reported in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Nature, is being illustrated in the journal's online version through new three-dimensional Portable Document Format (PDF) technology that will allow readers to view the article's key...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- As cold winter weather chills northern and central California this week, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) urges customers to be mindful of the dangers associated with carbon monoxide. Several tragic cases of carbon monoxide poisoning have taken place this week as customers throughout the state try to stay warm. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, tasteless and odorless gas that is created by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and...
RAE Systems Inc. (AMEX: RAE), a leader in delivering innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental, and government safety markets worldwide, introduced MeshGuard(TM) a rugged single-sensor, battery-powered toxic gas detector integrated with a wireless mesh radio modem for detecting hazardous levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) or carbon monoxide (CO). The monitoring units are designed to operate in the full temperature range of -40 degrees to 122 degrees F or -40 degrees...
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,...
ONE of the most coveted experiences of a university academic staff is the opportunity to undertake a leading edge in research. Chemical Engineering Department Associate Professor Dr Noor Asmawati M. Zabidi (pic) took the advantage to do just that when she was sent to the Eindhoven University of Technology in Holland. "I went there to explore new research areas in the field of nanocatalysis, specifically for gas-to-liquid conversion process," says Asmawati, who was there for nine months. Her...
By BRANDY BRUBAKER MORGANTOWN - Six people overcome by carbon monoxide remain hospitalized while authorities await results of an autopsy on a 12- year-old girl - a guest in the home - who succumbed to the gas. Authorities said a faulty pool heater attached to an indoor pool was to blame for the high carbon monoxide levels that poisoned residents and two guests in a home three miles south. State Trooper J.R. Celapino did not release the victims' names Wednesday, at the families' request,...
Ikaria Holdings has announced that the FDA has granted orphan drug designation for inhaled carbon monoxide for use in the reduction of the incidence and severity of delayed graft function in patients undergoing solid organ transplantation. Orphan drug designation provides an accelerated FDA review process, tax advantages and a seven-year period of market exclusivity in the US upon product approval. Ikaria is currently conducting a single-blind, placebo controlled, dose-escalating Phase II...
