Question 42 · LEK · Carbon monoxide poisoning
The so called “golden hour” to use hyperbaric oxygen in a heavy carbon monoxide poisoning is:
- A. 1 hour.
- B. 2 hours.
- C. 3 hours.
- D. 4 hours.
- E. 6 hours.
Hint
Hyperbaric oxygen in CO poisoning is most effective when started within a defined window counted in hours rather than minutes.
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