Carbon monoxide poisoning

Publication date: Available online 20 January 2020Source: Toxicology ReportsAuthor(s): Hiroshi Kinoshita, Hülya Türkan, Slavica Vucinic, Shahab Naqvi, Rafik Bedair, Ramin Rezaee, Aristides TsatsakisAbstractCarbon monoxide (CO) is the leading cause of poisoning deaths in many countries, including Japan. Annually, CO poisoning claims about 2000-5000 lives in Japan, which is over half of the total number of poisoning deaths. This paper discusses the physicochemical properties of CO and the toxicological evaluation of CO poisoning.
Source: Toxicology Reports - Category: Toxicology Source Type: research