• Compares different approaches to managing CO poisoning around the world

• Addresses the broadening awareness of chronic, non-lethal CO exposure and the health harms it can cause

• Presents both high tech scanning approaches and neuropsychological tools in the diagnosis of damage from CO poisoning

• Examines the setting of carbon monoxide health regulations in the environment and their success over the past several decades in the United States

• Includes new data on CO in suicide and motor vehicle accidents around the world and recent attempts to curtail them

Carbon Monoxide Toxicity examines the latest basic science and clinical research from around the world. It addresses the gamut of health-related CO issues, from the history of CO studies to the hidden threat of chronic low-level exposure. The broad themes center on clinical management of various forms of CO poisoning and education of the public on the constant dangers of CO.

Carbon Monoxide Toxicity meets the need for current research on the clinical management of CO poisoning.

Contents

1. History of Carbon Monoxide Toxicology
2. Carbon Monoxide in Breath, Blood, and Other Tissues
3. Carbon Monoxide Detectors
4. The Setting of Health-Based Standards for Ambient Carbon Monoxide and Their Impact on Atmospheric Levels
5. Effect of Carbon Monoxide on Work and Exercise Capacity in Humans
6. The Interacting Effects of Altitude and Carbon Monoxide
7. Interactions among Carbon Monoxide, Hydrogen Cyanide, Low Oxygen Hypoxia, Carbon Dioxide, and Inhaled Irritant Gases
8. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Its Management in the United States
9. Death by Suicide Involving Carbon Monoxide around the World
10. Carbon Monoxide as an Unrecognized Cause of Neurasthenia
11. Update on the Clinical Treatment of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
12. Treatment of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in France
13. Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisonings in Poland: Research and Clinical Experience
14. Treatment of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the United Kingdom
15. Carbon Monoxide Air Pollution and Its Health Impact on the Major Cities of China
16. Use of Scanning Techniques in the Diagnosis of Damage from Carbon Monoxide
17. Low-Level Carbon Monoxide and Human Health
18. Chronic Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
19. Chronic Carbon Monoxide Exposure: The CO Support Study
20. Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Carbon Monoxide-Poisoned Patient
21. Pediatric Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
22. Carbon Monoxide Production, Transport, and Hazard in Building Fires
23. Approaches to Dealing with Carbon Monoxide in the Living Environment

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