Delayed Neuro problems - a Korean case

An interesting recent case report from Korea illustrating a case of delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae.
South Korea has one of the highest incidences of domestic, unintentional CO poisoning in the world, with a death rate about ten times that in the UK. This is thought to be thanks to the traditional heating methods in some Korean homes, which is to leave a large lump of charcoal smouldering underneath the house overnight.

CORGI report

Hot off the press (or the pdf converter, anyway) is the latest report from CORGI into CO poisoning.
You can download a copy by clicking here.

How does CO poison...?

Confused about the toxicology of CO poisoning?
Try this excellent overview from Toxicology in 2003.

CO Awareness Capmaign Leaflets

You can download a copy of the latest advice leaflet from CO Awareness by going to the 'Useful Documents' box at the very bottom of this page.

An unusual side-effect of CO.

This recent post on prnewswire.com lists an unusual consumer danger from CO. It is apparently sometimes used to make packaged meat appear 'fresher' (i.e. pinker) than it really is!

You can see a warning video animation about this here.

'Delayed postanoxic encepalopathy'

Another name for 'DNS', or Delayed Neuropsychiatric Sequelae.
A case report from the Emergency Medicine Journal (http://emj.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/21/2/250).

pdf copy available by clicking here.

CO messes with your head - it's official.

It's quite well known that students are at high risk of CO exposure. What is less well known is that they are sometimes put deliberately at risk by their professors!
This valuable piece of research (Archives of Neurology 1998; 55 (6), 845) shows just how damaging low-level CO exposure is to the CNS. But I'm not sure it should have received ethical approval!

By going to this link to my public folder on box.net you can retrieve a pdf copy of this paper.