Prospective Study Puerto Rico health sciences journal 2021

Measuring Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter with Bedside Ocular Ultrasonography in Patients with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.

Kaya H, Bas EA, Engindeniz Z, Gafurogullari S, Durmaz D, Kaynak MF — Puerto Rico health sciences journal, 2021

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Summary

What Researchers Did

Researchers conducted a prospective cross-sectional study with 55 adult patients to investigate the relationship between optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) and clinical and carboxyhemoglobin levels in carbon monoxide poisoning.

What They Found

They found a significant decrease in ONSD after oxygen therapy (P .05).

What This Means for Canadian Patients

This suggests that ONSD measurements could serve as a rapid, non-invasive tool in emergency settings to monitor intracranial pressure changes in Canadian patients with carbon monoxide poisoning. Such monitoring could potentially guide treatment decisions and assess response to therapy.

Canadian Relevance

This study has no direct Canadian connection.

Study Limitations

A limitation of this study is its relatively small sample size of 55 patients and its single-center design, which may limit the generalizability of the findings.

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Study Details

Study Type	Prospective Study
Category	Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Source	Pubmed
PubMed ID	35077077
Year Published	2021
Journal	Puerto Rico health sciences journal
MeSH Terms	Adult; Carbon Monoxide Poisoning; Carboxyhemoglobin; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Optic Nerve; Oxygen; Prospective Studies; Ultrasonography

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