INTRODUCTION Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas produced as a by-product of incomplete combustion, and a common source is the fuel used for heating water in homes. The clinical presentation of CO poisoning may be mild, moderate, or severe. CASE PRESENTATION This paper describes carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in a 15-year-old child who suffered from severe cardiopulmonary compro...

In clinical practice, an elevated carbon monoxide (CO) transfer coefficient (KCO) and restrictive ventilatory defect are taken as features of respiratory muscle weakness (RMW). However, the authors hypothesised that both pattern and severity of RMW effect gas transfer and lung volumes. Measurements of CO transfer and lung volumes were performed in patients with isolated diaphragm weakness (n=10...

Carbon monoxide poisoning has been reported as a result of exposure to various sources of smoke, such as car exhaust fumes, home water heaters and tobacco smoke. We describe a case of symptomatic, moderately severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in a young Mediterranean man after smoking a waterpipe, or shisha. This case highlights the importance of considering carbon monoxide exposure in patie...

Hydrogen oxidation has been studied on a carbon-supported plat inum gas diffusion electrode in a phosphoric acid electrolyte in the presence of carbon monoxide and oxygen in the feed gas. The poisoning effect of carbon monoxide present in the feed gas was measured in the temperature range from 80 to 150~ It was found that throughout the temperature range, the potential loss due to the CO poison...

All modern vapor anesthetics are capable of carbon monoxide (CO) production as a result of interaction with desiccated strong base containing carbon dioxide absorbents. In desiccated absorbents, desflurane produces the highest concentrations of CO. Sevoflurane is known to produce the nephrotoxic compound A (CA) independently from water content of the carbon dioxide absorbent. The purpose of thi...

Ž 3 . Experiments are performed in which vibrationally and electronically excited CO a P, Õs1 molecules are scattered Ž . from a LiF 100 surface. As there is originally no population in the vibrationless level of the metastable state, this experiment gives the unique possibility of probing the vibrationally inelastic channel in the scattering of vibrationally excited molecules. The vibrational ...

A site for the binding of exogenously added carbon monoxide has been identified at the active site of the Fe-only hydrogenase (CpI) from Clostridium pasteurianum. The binding and inhibition of carbon monoxide have been exploited in biochemical and spectroscopic studies to gain mechanistic insights. In the present study, we have taken advantage of the ability to generate an irreversibly carbon m...

To elucidate the role of carbon monoxide (CO) in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), the effect of an inhibitor of heme oxygenase, which produces carbon monoxide, was investigated in the dentate gyrus of anesthetized rats. Administration of zinc protoporphyrin IX (100 nmol, i.c.v.) 30 min before the tetanic stimulation of 30 pulses at 60 Hz attenuated the intensity of LTP. However, this d...