An Unusual Case of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Formic and Sulfuric Acid Mixture

Formic acid, when combined with sulfuric acid, gets dehydrated to form carbon monoxide (CO). A 27-year-old female was found unconscious inside a car, next to a container with a mixture of sulfuric acid and formic acid. Concentrations of up to 400 parts per million of CO were measured inside the car...

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Autores principales: Ershad, Muhammed, Melisiotis, Athanasios, Gaskill, Zachary, Kelly, Matthew, Hamilton, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32064425
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.10.44265
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author Ershad, Muhammed
Melisiotis, Athanasios
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Kelly, Matthew
Hamilton, Richard
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description Formic acid, when combined with sulfuric acid, gets dehydrated to form carbon monoxide (CO). A 27-year-old female was found unconscious inside a car, next to a container with a mixture of sulfuric acid and formic acid. Concentrations of up to 400 parts per million of CO were measured inside the car post ventilation. Serum carboxyhemoglobin level was 15% after receiving 100% oxygen for two hours. The patient received hyperbaric oxygen therapy after which she was extubated with normal mental status. On follow-up after three months, she demonstrated neurocognitive abnormalities suggestive of delayed neurological sequelae from CO exposure.
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spelling pubmed-70125512020-02-14 An Unusual Case of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Formic and Sulfuric Acid Mixture Ershad, Muhammed Melisiotis, Athanasios Gaskill, Zachary Kelly, Matthew Hamilton, Richard Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report Formic acid, when combined with sulfuric acid, gets dehydrated to form carbon monoxide (CO). A 27-year-old female was found unconscious inside a car, next to a container with a mixture of sulfuric acid and formic acid. Concentrations of up to 400 parts per million of CO were measured inside the car post ventilation. Serum carboxyhemoglobin level was 15% after receiving 100% oxygen for two hours. The patient received hyperbaric oxygen therapy after which she was extubated with normal mental status. On follow-up after three months, she demonstrated neurocognitive abnormalities suggestive of delayed neurological sequelae from CO exposure. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7012551/ /pubmed/32064425 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.10.44265 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Ershad et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title_sort unusual case of carbon monoxide poisoning from formic and sulfuric acid mixture
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