Carbon monoxide: Chemistry, role, toxicity and treatment

Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 158-163

  Harvey, W R ^a   Hutton, P ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIVERDIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

BRAIN INJURY; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; DIATHERMY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXCITABLE MEMBRANE; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF POISONING;

EID: 0032820590     PISSN: 09537112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-7112(99)80008-8     Document Type: Article

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