In the northern hemisphere, Winter is Coming. Folks are firing up their furnaces – some of which may have an inadequate oxygen supply, thereby generating carbon monoxide. Unfortunately, the diagnosis of carbon monoxide poisoning is extremely hard to make, mimicking many different conditions. In particular, carbon monoxide poisoning can mimimic influenza – which is also descending upon us. This chapter explores how to approach this diagnosis and various management strategies. Like many toxicologic topics there isn't much Level I evidence, so things may get a bit controversial.
-
The IBCC chapter is located here.
- The podcast & comments are below.
Follow us on iTunes
The Podcast Episode
Want to Download the Episode?
Right Click Here and Choose Save-As
- Pulmcrit wee: The cutoff razor - April 15, 2024
- PulmCrit Blogitorial – Use of ECGs for management of (sub)massive PE - March 24, 2024
- PulmCrit Wee: Propofol induced eyelid opening apraxia – the struggle is real - March 20, 2024
Hello,
As a person who loves to read, this article is really amazing. Full of informative knowledge and great writing skills.
Great work!
During my anesthesia residency, on my pediatric anesthesia rotation, at one particular hospital site, we used to use inhaled CO2 in order to hyperventilate anesthetic vapor off at the end of a case, without preventing the patient from spontaneously breathing. This allowed more rapid emergence while maintaining a patient’s respiratory drive in order to extubate them more expeditiously. For some reason, this doesn’t appear to be in common practice in the adult world, I’m not sure it’s common in the pediatric anesthesia world anymore either, though I don’t do much pediatric anesthesia.
Hey josh. One clarification is needed. In this chapter you have mentioned in the section of oxygen saturation gap that saturation measured by pulse oximetry will show high reading but PaO2 will be low. But is it not like saturation measured by co oximetry will show lower saturation rather than pao2 being low. N