I said confirmed CO incidents, the GP or hospital DR would carry out a breath analasys which would confirm if it was CO, you have no clue what you are talking about and just pick statistics out of the air
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carboxyhaemoglobin levels in the blood are the test for carbon monoxide poisoning. Breathe analysis would be invalid if the casualty had been on 100% oxygen.
you lot would be fuc*ed without Google
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Eh what?
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Why would there be any CO in your breath? Surely CO preferentially and irreversibly binds with haemoglobin, hence effectively suffocating you. No Google just basic biochemistry.
A smoker would have a relatively high level of CO in their breath, when the NHS were giving out free stop smoking patches , the patient had to pass a CO breath sample in order to receive a prescription, but Bernard knows better than all of us qualified experts as he knows everything about everything.
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/quit-smoking/nhs-stop-smoking-services-help-you-quit/
he is an ex fire investigator and an ex insurance fraud investigator apparently, according to him, but has no clue about the basics of anything
About investigating reports, you probably do. About treating patients I might know more, I was a workplace first aider for 9 years and then St John Ambulance for a further 4 years.
Just to clarify it, the two investigators (who substantiated my comment before I posted it on DIYnot ) are just two of the many people who subscribe, by invitation only, to a mailing list that was started in the 1950's ( letters in the post and a stenciled newsletter ) as a forum for intellectual development and exchange of knowledge.
https://www.blf.org.uk/support-for-you/breathing-tests/exhaled-carbon-monoxide-test
""You will be asked to hold your breath for as long as possible, ideally 15 seconds. Then you will breathe out slowly into the mouthpiece aiming to empty your lungs completely.""
Holding ones breath creates a situation in the lungs where some carbon monoxide can become detatched from the haemaglobin and thus be present in the expired air.
( If you want the full story then do some research on partial pressures and gas exchange mechanisms in the lungs )
10 ppm and over recent exposure to a high level of carbon monoxide and that you are a smoker
5–9 ppm recent exposure to a moderate level of carbon monoxide and you are possibly smoking
1–4 ppm recent exposure to a low level of carbon monoxide. It’s normal to have a small amount of carbon monoxide in your breath even if you’re not a smoker
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