Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Comatose Patients With Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Exclusion Criteria

• •poisoning by more than one compound (e.g., CO plus a drug or CO plus other toxic gases such as those found in fire smoke)
• •suicide attempt
• •pregnancy
• •contraindications to HBO (circulatory collapse or pneumothorax)
• •technical obstacles to HBO
• •non domestic CO poisoning
• •difficulty in determining whether the patient experienced initial loss of consciousness or initial coma
• •consent refusal