What is carbon dioxide poisoning?
carbon dioxide poisoning is a condition in which the body is unable to eliminate carbon dioxide, or is exposed to carbon dioxide levels above the body tolerance. It is also called hypercarbia or hypercapnia, starts tachypnea, which is an increase in respiratory frequency to eliminate excess carbon dioxide. If this reflective tachypnea fails, it can be fatal. In addition to increased breathing, the effects of carbon dioxide poisoning include breathing problems, rinsed skin and neurological changes. The treatment involves facilitating the removal of excess carbon dioxide in the blood, usually through intubation and supplying oxygen via oxygen tank. This condition may occur in people who have a problem with lungs such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) AU of people who are hypnolate. It may occur among people who have opioid poisoning or reduced consciousness. To this condition can also lead environmental exposure to abnormally elevated levels of carbon dioxide such as what is going onhem of volcanic eruptions. Frozen carbon dioxide or dry ice exposure can also lead to hypercapnia.
Symptoms of carbon dioxide poisoning can be divided into mild symptoms and serious symptoms based on the amount of carbon dioxide. Mild symptoms occur when the concentration of carbon dioxide is about 1%, or 10,000 parts per million, and these symptoms include muscle twitches or convulsions, waving hands, flushing of the skin and reduced vigilance. Severe symptoms occur when carbon dioxide levels are above 5%and these symptoms include headache, disorientation, hyperventilation and lethargy. Signs of carbon dioxide poisoning include increased blood, increased breathing, increased or irregular heart rate and increased heart expenditure. They can proceed to loss of consciousness, coma, convulsions and death.
Diagnosis of hypercapnia is made by the patient's medical history, examining symptoms and symptoms and PTags of laboratory tests. It is said that a person has hypercapnia if carbon dioxide levels exceed 45 millimeters of mercury (MMHG). As a result, the potensions (pH) of blood becomes acidic. The body usually compensates for hypercapnia by increasing the concentration of bicarbonate in the blood. Measurement of serum bicarbonate over 28 milligrams per deciliter (Mg/DL) is also expected to poison carbon dioxide.
carbon dioxide poisoning focuses on both the elimination of excess carbon dioxide from the body and on the administration of pure oxygen to maintain normal body processes. Emergency measures, including endotracheal incubation and the giving of intravenous fluids and are performed, are carried out for heart rate regulation and patient cardiac output. Long -term effects of carbon dioxide include deterioration or worsening of nerve functions, including reduced knowledge and impaired memory. It is important to prevent this from ensuring that the employees exposed to carbon dioxide are provided with adequate ventilation.