Pediatric Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

• Main Author: Hopkins, Ramona O.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic; Byrd; Macleod; The Antarctic; Weaver; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195342680.003.0073

Carbon monoxide (CO) exposure has been described ever since humans developed products of combustion (e.g. fire, burning charcoal). The Romans realized that CO poisoning leads to death (Penney 2000). Coal fumes were used in ancient times for execution, and the deaths of two Byzantine emperors are att...