Efforts to educate the public on how to prevent Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning have focused mainly on increasing 
awareness of the dangers of CO and on promoting the proper maintenance of potential residential sources of CO, such as furnaces and water heaters stated the article of JAMA Journals.
With approximately 2100 deaths in the United States per year, emerging the idea of CO detectors use. Previous studies stated that the use of CO detectors can eliminate the medical cost of treating CO-exposed patients but did not provide the number of people that may be affected. In this article some researchers examine deaths reported to the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI), Albuquerque, that were found to be caused by unintentional CO poisoning and whether those deaths might have been prevented by using either a nonaudible chemical reagent CO detector or an electronic audible CO detector.
Steven S. Yoon, ScD, MPH, from Centers for Disease Control and Preventionand Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA and his colleagues reported decriptive analysis about the epidemiology of potentially preventable unintentional CO poisoning deaths in New Mexico for a total of 136 deaths from CO poisoning investigated by the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator.
Find the methods, results and discussions about CO Exposure’s Effect and Its Potensial Prevention in the PDF Filetype available here.
