Clinical Outcomes and Mortality Impact of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Patients With Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Carbon monoxide poisoning affects 50,000 per year in the United States alone. Mortality is approximately 3%, and up to 40% of survivors suffer from permanent neurocognitive and affective deficits. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has shown benefit on reducing the long-term neurologic sequelae of carbon monoxide poisoning but has not demonstrated improved survival. The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen for acute and long-term mortality in carbon monoxide poisoning using a large clinical databank.

Design

Retrospective analysis.

Setting

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center healthcare system (Pittsburgh, PA).

Patients

One-thousand ninety-nine unique encounters of adult patients with carbon monoxide poisoning.

Intervent

SUBMITTER: Rose JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6005724 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature