Abstract:

The carbon monoxide is an unpleasant, smellless and uncolored gas, causing countless poisoning every year. In developed countries, the most common cause of this poisoning is suicide, while in developing countries like us, the most common cause is that ventilation is inappropriate or insufficient. In this study, cases of carbon monoxide poisoning that appeal to our emergency service were examined retrospectively and the laboratory and clinical characteristics that affected the hospital stay were investigated. Tools and Methods: Patients with carbon monoxide poisoning were included in the study in emergency service between 2016-2018 years. Those cases have been studied by the study of the characteristics of these cases, such as age, gender, date of poisoning, time of emergency application, residence where the poisoning is, medical proximity of the patient, pH, carboxychemoglobin (COHb), lactate, troponin I levels, the number of leukocytes and clinical conclusions. Results: During the study, 421 patients were found to apply for emergency service, most of these patients were adults (64.8%) and female patients (55.3%. In hospitalized cases, the pH was low, the laktate, troponin I and the number of leukocytes was higher (p <0.001). Patients most often appealed to emergency services with complaints of breathing impairment (45.8%) and headaches (33.8%. All patients with awareness changes were hospitalized (p <0.001). Result: Factors affecting hospitalization in carbon monoxide poisoning; there is a change in consciousness in the patient, pH, laktate, troponin I level and the number of leukocytes.

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