Personal Narrative: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

This situation with this family is sad because I think the family was unaware of the unventilated gas heater. They could have checked items in the home before hibernation in order to prevent things like this from happening to them while they were sleeping. Carbon Monoxide is

Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, and poisonous gas. CNESST reported that 4 workers died at work of CO poisoning in the last 5 years. (25) CO could be fatal at certain concentration. Its effects can occur well before being aware enough of its presence. In Canada, more than 50 person lose their life each year from CO poisoning, of which an average of 11 deaths in Ontario. Every year significant number are suffering from CO poisoning, many of whom are permanently disabled. In Canada between 2000 and 2009, 380 accidental deaths were documented by CO. (27) Headache, nausea, burning eyes, fainting, confusion, and drowsiness are such alarm that you are exposed to CO. (28) Exposure to CO may be particularly dangerous for elderly,

Reaching across the center console of my car, I imagined the commute that I had into school. My 1992 Jeep Cherokee courageously braved the snowstorm of the year, with only one functional windshield wiper and a forlorn four wheel drive system. As I turned onto the Merritt Parkway, a Honda Civic swerved past me and proceeded to weave in and out of the afternoon traffic. Fast-forward sixty seconds and that Honda was now engulfed by the powder white trees which bound the highway. Instinctively, I pulled up behind the crash site, dialing 911 as I ran over to the mangled wreck. I peered into the car, my pupils the size of marbles, and the driver seemed uninjured; regardless, I proceeded to reassure the driver that Emergency Medical Technician’s/Paramedic’s

Carbon monoxide is a potentially deadly gas emitted by gas burning appliances. Considering it is colorless, odorless and tasteless if a leak occurs only a carbon monoxide detector can alert you and your family to its presence in your home. Install the detectors near the bedrooms and at least one on each floor.

The first phase occurs within 24 hours. It is caused by thermal damage and inflammation to the upper airway. Intubation should be considered early because of swelling and possible loss of airway. When mechanical ventilation is initiated it is important that burn victims have a higher than normal minute ventilation because they require a higher metabolic rate. The tidal volume should be at 6-8 kilograms per ideal body weight and respiratory rate should be 14 -16 breathes per minute. In the early phase, we also worry about carbon monoxide poisoning. Normal carbon monoxide levels in a healthy, non-smoking adult is usually around 5%, When CO levels are higher symptoms of headaches, dizziness, dyspnea weakness, impaired judgement, convulsions, coma, tachypnea, tachycardia, and hypotension may be present. This is caused by CO taking the site of oxygen on the red blood cell. This shifts the O2- HB curve to the left. To diagnose carbon monoxide poisoning a coximeter is needed. Treatment for CO poisoning is 100% FIO2 until CO level return to 5-10%. (There was not a carboxyhemoglobin reading for this patient all I could find was a pending reading. This would have been an easy noninvasive test that could have been perform quickly in the

Last I heard from my friends they had grown ears and tails and one seemed to have a fever so I could only wonder if and when something would happen to me. It was already fairly late so I figured it wouldn't do me any good to stay up all night waiting for something when it might not even happen so i drifted off to sleep. When I woke up for school I was still feeling fine aside from the normal morning haze so I figured might as well finish off this week since it was Friday. During lunch just as I sat down by my friends everything started to feel warmer and a headache began to pulse. Of course my body chose now to betray me. I grabbed my head in a desperate attempt to stop the growing pains and everyone around me began to notice my discomfort and tried to help but it just

Being born and spending all of my life on Staten Island, I am well aware with the drug epidemic that plagues the borough especially with opioids. In high school, I knew people who used opioids to battle their personal demons. The people I was acquainted with saw and wanted help, but did not have the sufficient will power at the time to quit. After graduating high school, and then attending college many of the acquaintances I knew and others that I did not died from unintentional overdoses. What further troubles me is that in my own personal experience with my family, drug addicts are always trying to seek help before an overdose. Thus, I was glad and relieved that Mayor Bill de Blasio launched an effort to reduce opioid usage and fatal overdoses

I just went in for a cleaning, all I wanted was for my dentist to check for any cavities and tell me everything was in perfect condition. I don’t understand how I managed to wake up in the middle of a siege. The last thing I remember was Dr. Goldstein saying to me “Well Andre, it looks like you have a few cavities, I’m going to use some anaesthesia, just in case you don't respond to the pain medication again. Is that alright?” I did feel unsure about his decision, I couldn't understand why I would need anaesthesia during a cleaning, but I let him do his job. Dizziness soon followed, before I woke up in a gloomy room with the door barricaded. The only light in the room was coming from a TV showing the news. As I got off the dental chair, I asked Mr Goldstein “What happened here? Why is the door barricaded with furniture?”

In 2014, the hockey players of a Wisconsin tournament had to be treated because of carbon monoxide poisoning, which may have occurred as a result of ice-resurfacing equipment that malfunctioned. Because of the mass carbon monoxide poisoning that took place, US health officials want to raise awareness of this event to avoid identical situations in the future. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes the largest carbon monoxide poisoning in the history of Wisconsin, which was published recently to bring awareness to this hidden danger.

I just went in for a cleaning, all I wanted was for my dentist to check for any cavities and tell me everything was in perfect condition. I don’t understand how I managed to wake up in the middle of a siege. The last thing I remember was Dr. Goldstein saying “Well Andre, it looks like you have a few cavities, I’m going to use some anaesthesia, just in case you don't respond to the pain medication again. Is that alright?” I did feel unsure about his decision, I couldn't understand why I would need anaesthesia during a cleaning, but I let him do his job. Dizziness soon followed, before I woke up in a gloomy room with the door barricaded. The only was light coming from a TV showing the news. As I got off the dental chair, I asked Mr Goldstein

In 2016, there were over 64,000 drug related deaths. My dad was sadly one of them.

What is Carbon Monoxide (CO) ? CO is a poisonous colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. Even though it has no delecatable odor CO is often mixed with gases that do have an ordor. You can inhale CO along with gases that you can smell and not have any awarness that CO is present.It is common in industrial hazard resulting from the incomplete burning of natural gas. Also along with any other material containing carbon such as gas, kerosene, oil, propane, coal, and wood.Carbon monoxide is a gas that causes thousands of deaths each year in Amercica. It is the leading cause of death in the USA.

In this study, the age of the studied patients ranged from 15-55 years with female predominance. All cases were accidentally exposed to acute Co poisoning with no recorded deaths. This is disagreeing with other studies in which the mean age was 47.2 years with male sex and accidental mode predominance (Satran et al., 2005; Henry et al., 2006).

Two days ago, I was out with a high fever and a stomach virus. I don’t know how I got it, but it happened. I couldn’t get out of bed to use the restroom when I wanted to, eat, and even sleep! I felt like I was dying. Not only would that, with every inch of moment I did on my bed, have those ice-picking sensations appeared. Gah! I was a total mess! The pain of suffering... I swear I saw the light a couple of times….or maybe that was my mom turning on the light at night?

Central Idea: Carbon Monoxide is a deadly, odorless, colorless, tasteless gas but with proper education and detection you can avoid becoming another statistic of carbon monoxide poisoning.