Outcome of Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at a Far-East Poison Center

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 3; p. e0118995
• Main Authors: Ku, Chung-Hsuan, Hung, Huei-Min, Leong, Wa Cheong, Chen, Hsiao-Hui, Lin, Ja-Liang, Huang, Wen-Hung, Yang, Huang-Yu, Weng, Cheng-Hao, Lin, Che-Min, Lee, Shwu-Hua, Wang, I-Kuan, Liang, Chih-Chia, Chang, Chiz-Tzung, Lin, Wey-Ran, Yen, Tzung-Hai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 06.03.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adults; Brain damage; Burning; Burning rate; Carbon; Carbon monoxide; Carbon monoxide poisoning; Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - therapy; Care and treatment; Charcoal; Coma; Complications; Data processing; Demographics; Failure; Female; Fever; Health aspects; Hepatitis; Hospitals; Humans; Hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Hypothermia; Hypoxia; Inhalation; Intoxication; Kidneys; Male; Medicine; Metabolism; Middle Aged; Mortality; Mortality risk; Myocardial infarction; Nephrology; Oxygen; Oxygen therapy; Patient outcomes; Patients; Physicians; Physiology; Poison Control Centers; Poisoning; Regression analysis; Regression models; Renal failure; Respiratory failure; Respiratory therapy; Retrospective Studies; Rhabdomyolysis; Risk factors; Shock; Statistical tests; Suicide; Suicides & suicide attempts; Surgeons; Taiwan; Therapy; Toxicology; Treatment Outcome; Young Adult; Taiwan; China

Many cases of carbon monoxide poisoning in Taiwan are due to burning charcoal. Nevertheless, few reports have analyzed the mortality rate of these patients who survive to reach a hospital and die despite intensive treatment. Therefore, this study examined the clinical features, physiological markers...