{"pk":50902,"title":"Carbon Monoxide Poisoning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Audience: \nThis oral boards case is appropriate for all emergency medicine learners (residents, interns, and medical students).\n \n \n \n \nIntroduction:\n Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless and odorless gas that typically results from combustion. It binds hemoglobin, dissociating oxygen, causing headache, weakness, confusion and possible seizure or coma. Pulse oxygen levels may be falsely elevated. Practitioners should maintain a high index of suspicion for carbon monoxide poisoning. If caught early CO poisoning is reversible with oxygen or hyperbaric oxygen therapy.\nObjectives\n:\n \nThe learner will assess a patient with altered mental status and weakness, ultimately identifying that the patient has carbon monoxide poisoning. The learner will treat the patient with oxygen and admit/transfer the patient for hyperbaric oxygenation.\n \nMethod: \nOral boards case\n \nTopics:\n Carbon monoxide poisoning, toxicology, carboxyhemoglobin, altered mental status, oral boards, hypoxia, pulse oximetry.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Oral Boards","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r40q5th","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alisa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wray","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2016-07-16T02:20:29Z","date_accepted":"2016-07-16T02:20:29Z","date_published":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_jetem/article/50902/galley/38863/download/"}]}