Author: David G. Penney
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: toxicity, monoxide, carbon
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2000-06-02
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 0849320658
ISBN-13: 9780849320651

Public interest in the health impacts of carbon monoxide (CO) has been increasing rapidly during the past decade. And rightly so: it is the most ubiquitous environmental poison. Car exhaust fumes, furnaces, gas-powered engines, home water heaters, smoke from all types of fire, and tobacco smoke all contribute to carbon monoxide intoxication - the leading cause of poisoning death in the United States. Even when it doesn’t cause death, it often produces lasting, deleterious effects on the central nervous system.From one of the world’s top CO experts, Carbon Monoxide Toxicity examines

Author: M.M. Hirschler
Publisher: Spon Press
Keywords: fire, non, studies, lethality, monoxide, human, carbon
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1993-12-30
List price: $350.00
ISBN-10: 185861015X
ISBN-13: 9781858610153

This book summarizes a comprehensive study of the importance of carbon monoxide [CO] in fire atmospheres. It will be relevant to institutions involved in fire research, to industries producing combustible materials and to those concerned with fire from safety and medical standpoints.