Treatment of Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Using a Portable Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 319-322

  Lueken, Robert John ^a   Heffner, Alan Christopher ^b   Parks, Phillip D ^a  

^a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GAS MASK; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE;

EID: 33747775780     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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