A comparison of two types of acute carbon monoxide poisoning

✍ Scribed by Maciej Bogusz; Leon Cholewa; Janusz Pach; Ksenia Młodkowska

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 413 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-5761
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00353239

✦ Synopsis

In 47 patients treated at the Toxicological Clinic in Krakow for coal stove-gas poisoning, the aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, LDH1 isoenzyme activities, and the lactate level were studied. Findings were compared with those of earlier investigations carried out on a group of patients poisoned by lighting gas; qualitatively changes in both groups were similar. The biochemical parameters studied aided in quantitative evaluation of the patients' condition: a threefold increase in lactate level on admission to the hospital and a likewise threefold increase in aspartate aminotransferase activity after 24 hrs of treatment are indications of severe poisoning.