Erschienen in:
01.02.2005 | Correspondence
Severe carbon monoxide poisoning after cleaning a polystyrene tank
verfasst von:
Bernhard Jahrbeck, Boris Perras, Martin Nitschke, Christoph Dodt
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2005
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Excerpt
Incomplete combustion of carbon-based organic materials generates carbon monoxide (CO) [
1]. Thus, accidental CO poisoning is most often caused by smouldering fires in combustion engines and fossil-fueled heaters or stoves. However, in extremely rare instances CO poisoning can occur without an open or hidden combustion process [
2,
3,
4]. …