Hi Maurice ( - blast from the past again -) and list. I know I am an old
lady but in the days of coal gas I was doing my pathology attachment with
Frances Camps ; the day started with a mortuary full of autopsies at the old
St Pancras mortuary. F.C.would stand on the top of three steps leading in to
the body of the mortuary exuding foul smelling smoke from his unique
cigarettes and count the CO suicides by the colour of their skin. I have to
agree with Rowley - they were very pink!
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From: maurice cross <[log in to unmask]>
To: INTERNET:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 21 March 1999 23:16
Subject: CO Poisoning
>It is typical of the CO poisoning who has trivial exposure to have a
>variety of symptoms which are inexplicable. The fact that your patient was
>a hopepipe job yet has a GSC of 13 points to his having done a very
>inadequate 'job' since MOST CO poisonings are in fact succssful in kiling
>themselves. His shakes are quite untypical of CO, but might be related to
>other drugs, emotional state or some unknown mechanism. But if you are
>pulled from the car with a GCS of 13 before treatment then you are NOT very
>sevely intoxicated.
>
>In severe CO poisoning, there is involvement of the basal ganglia of the
>brain. This is classically seen on CT scan. Even in these cases,. a
>parkinsonian outcome is rare.
>
>So your shakes may be many things.
>But I suspect it ani't directly due to CO
>
>Maurice Cross
>Plymouth.
>
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