Hypothermia — Its Use in Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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CLINICAL hypothermia has been used recently, with success, in a wide variety of conditions having in common Central-nervous-system hypoxia and edema. Reports have appeared in the literature regarding the protection of laboratory animals from carbon monoxide intoxication by the use of deep hypothermia.1 Encouraged by these reports, we made use of hypothermia in the treatment of severe carbon monoxide poisoning in a young man whose prognosis appeared hopeless. This is a report on the dramatic response of a patient to cooling.Case ReportAn 18-year-old man was taken to the hospital in a coma by the police emergency squad.One . . .

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