[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 23:18 on 09/09/98
about "Carbon Monoxide poisoning":
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>I have patient who was poisoned by CO in June. He wants to go to
Plymouth
>for hyperbaric O2 treatment. Does anyone know anything about it?
>
>Costs UKP 1500 per session.......
>
>Mark
Seems remarkably expensive. If he is going to do it he could save a
fiver by going in the chamber at Exeter, or if he insists on the
seaside, Exmouth.
I don't think they charge anything like that, either, for the actual
compression and O2.
However, the use of O2 in CO poisoning is in the first half hour or
so after removal from the source, when it displaces the CO from the
Haemoglobin rather better than room air (or even the outside fresh
stuff). Raising the partial pressure from the half atmosphere or so
real people achive on a 100% O2 mask to the 2 atmospheres in a
chamber would be very useful in the first few minutes of that time
if the poisoning was severe. In fact the altitude sickness
treatment pressure balloons might be a useful thing to have in fire
engines - but I am not sure they are rated for pure O2.
Once the initial recovery has occurred, even if there is lasting
damage from hypoxaemia, the quality of thinking behind pressure
treatment is somewhere between Homeopathic and Orthopaedic.
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