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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Researchers at LDS Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine target carbon monoxide poisoning

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, August 30th, 2007

Fresh data on carbon monoxide poisoning are presented in the report "Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts. Each year, more than 200 people in the United States die from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts," investigators in the United States report.

"Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. Data on patients poisoned at hotels, motels, and resorts were evaluated at a hyperbaric medicine service. In 2005, legal databases and online news databanks were searched to discover additional incidents. Only victims evaluated in hospitals or declared...

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