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EMCrit 423 - Hyperbaric Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?

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Scott D. Weingart, MD FCCM

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Scott Wongard here, and this is the M-Crit podcast. Today on the podcast, we're going to talk about

0:04.7

hyperbaric oxygen for carbon monoxide poisoning and the complete lack of evidence for that therapy.

0:11.9

I guess I'm really biasing the audience early on, but we will hear from David Jirlink on that

0:18.8

and just a little bit more stuff on carbon monoxide. Before we get to

0:23.4

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com. All right. Let's get into the show. David Jirlink, hyperbaric oxygen for carbon monoxide.

1:25.9

So then we start with the same question as always,

1:27.9

who are you and what do you do? So I'm Dave Ehrlich. I'm an internist in Toronto. I work at

1:34.2

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, one of the larger hospitals affiliated with the University

1:39.2

of Toronto. And so that's my main clinical hat. I look after adult in patients. I don't have any outpatient

1:45.7

practice. My other hats, though, are I do clinical pharmacology and medical toxicology. So the

1:52.3

Clint Farm side of things, we see, we have this consult service where we see patients with any kind

1:58.5

of drug-related problem. We might go to the burn unit for a T-E-N patient.

2:03.4

We see a lot of dress, what we used to call dress, drug-hypersensitivity reactions, drug-induced

2:07.6

liver injury, pretty much anything. And the tox side, I'm a toxicologist at the Ontario Poison

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