Carbon monoxide causes MCI

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http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1510491.html

As many as 200 people could have been exposed to possible carbon monoxide that apparently sickened employees and others at the Bank of America building in north Fort Worth, emergency responders said.

Seven people were taken by ambulances to area hospitals in critical condition, and emergency workers were conducting triage outside the building at 5401 Beach Street, said Lara Kohl, a spokeswoman for Medstar.


Between 50 and 60 people were evaluated by medical personnel.
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Weird. The article doesn't say what caused the CO problem, and says it dissipated by the time the HAZMAT technicians went through the building. Suppose the HVAC pulled it in somehow?
 
Surprised we haven't had something like this happen over at the jersey shore with all the axe and hair products around (and that's just the guys)
 
34 people taken to the hospital? 110 others treated and released? That's some strong perfume!
 
berkeman said:
"in critical condition" from perfume and psychosomatic reactions? Sounds like the paper made that initial part up. Lordy.
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Considering the number of people who have some type of pulmonary disease today, the numbers could have been a lot worse. It is quite possible that some of these patients did end up on a ventilator or at least ICU with BiPAP and continuous bronchodilators running.

There was a forum member here last year that was asthmatic and extremely sensitive to certain things. She was an excellent source to describe what happens when some salesperson at a department store sprays perfume in one's face and they end up in the ED with an RT and a ventilator waiting for them.
 
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