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The Resus Room

Carbon Monoxide

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

4.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Carbon Monoxide poisoning is definitely one of those differentials that you consider when the patients books into ED with '?carbon monoxide poisoning'...... but how much do we really think about it in a patient that hasn't been sent down to the ED with this specific thought in mind?

Rob Fenwick talks us through the key points of Carbon Monoxide poisoning and some recent evidence on the topic which will probably make us consider the possibility a bit more frequently! This podcast was based around the post Rob wrote for Jonathan Downham's superb Critical Care Practitioner podcast. Go and have a look at the post for a lot more information on the topic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome back to the podcast. I'm Simon Lang and I'm joined again by Rob Benwick.

0:17.0

Oh great drum roll Simon. Thanks very much for the introduction. It's good to be back.

0:21.6

Well, you're back because we're using your knowledge this time on carbon monoxide.

0:26.6

Indeed we are. We're going to be having a little look into carbon monoxide poisoning, which is

0:31.6

something I did a bit of a topic review on for Jonathan Downham's website.

0:35.6

Yeah, and we should mention that because it's a really good resource,

0:38.5

so it's Jonathandownen.com,

0:41.2

and Jonathan's one of our advanced care practitioners

0:44.1

at our trust,

0:45.7

and he's got a great website there

0:47.3

with loads of stuff,

0:48.5

critical care and emergency medicine,

0:50.0

and base.

0:50.5

So make sure we go over to that

0:51.8

and check it out,

0:52.8

and we will put a link to it

0:54.0

on the website in the show notes so rob carbon monoxide educate us uh so i came across a study published in 2014 uh in the emj by

1:05.1

zorbala et al you remember that paper my memory might be going a little bit hazy on that one by now.

1:11.9

So do you want to give us a little recap?

1:14.7

Yeah, I could do, or you could just get... No, it's all. Yeah, I'll do it. It's okay.

1:16.6

So this is a paper that looked at patients presenting to a Turkish emergency department.

1:23.0

So immediately, alarm bells ringing that it might not be applicable to our population, but it was interesting nonetheless.

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