Guidance on carbon monoxide

Chemical compendium on carbon monoxide
Background information, incident management and threshold levels and in-depth toxicology.
Carbon monoxide action card for HPUs (PDF, 43 KB)
Resource for HPA staff describing how to respond to incidents involving carbon monoxide. Includes actions, roles and responsibilities of different organisations and a template for local contact details. This is being updated; please email chemicals.london@hpa.org.uk for more information.
Carbon monoxide algorithm for medical professionals
Algorithm for medical practitioners to aid diagnosing acute and chronic carbon monoxide poisoning, with recommendations for actions once diagnosis is made.
Flowchart for environmental health practitioners
Residential inspection aid to help Environmental Health Practitioners establish whether occupants of residential premises might be at risk from carbon monoxide.
Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP)
Information on indoor air pollution from the Department of Health's COMEAP group.
Carbon monoxide training workshops
Training for health protection staff, environmental health practitioners and emergency responders in how to respond to carbon monoxide poisoning incidents.
Study of carbon monoxide exposure in hospital emergency department attendees
Information on joint NHS and HPA project looking at incidence of CO poisoning in patients attending hospital emergency departments.
Carbon monoxide articles published by the Health Protection Agency
Articles published by the HPA, covering best practice in response, research and project initiatives, wider aspects of CO poisoning and reviews of poisoning incidents.
- Developing best practice response to carbon monoxide incidents: A toolkit for health protection frontline staff.
  Mandal S et al. 2011. Public Health, Issue 125, p148-156
- The water-pipe - an increasingly common source of carbon monoxide poisoning?
  Zenner D et al. 2011. CHAPR Issue 19, p10
- Increasing carbon monoxide awareness in Camden
  Oliver S. 2010. CHAPR Issue 17, p40
- A pilot costing study of carbon monoxide poisonings in London
  Maskell D et al. 2009. CHAPR Issue 15, p35
- Carbon monoxide poisoning – Whose problem is it? A workshop review
  Mitchem L et al. 2009. CHAPR Issue 15, p71
- The cost of poor housing
  Ormandy D. 2009. CHAPR Issue 14, p43
- Carbon monoxide: elements of environmental public health surveillance
  Basarab M et al. 2008. CHAPR Issue 13, p14
- Carbon monoxide poisoning: lessons in communication and risks to first responders
  Meltzer M et al. 2008. CHAPR Issue 12, p14
- Economic assessment of carbon monoxide poisoning: strategies and options
  Fordham R. 2008. CHAPR Issue 12, p18
- Carbon monoxide - a communications perspective
  Chappell L. 2007. CHAPR Issue 10, p60
- Carbon monoxide poisoning at indoor go-karting track
  Padfield S et al. 2006. CHAPR Issue 8, p7
- Hyperbaric or normobaric oxygen therapy for carbon monoxide poisoning?
  Vivancos R et al. 2005. CHAPR Issue 8, p10
- Chemicals in the drains, carbon monoxide poisoning or interpretations of laboratory results? Closure of a school in Lincolnshire
  Neely F. 2005. CHAPR Issue 4, p6
- The multidisciplinary approach to acute chemical incidents: an example of mass exposure to carbon monoxide
  Clarke S et al. 2004. CHAPR Issue 2, p7
- Fumes under the bank- Report on a chemical incident in a high street bank, Banbury, Oxfordshire
  George G et al. 2004. CHAPR Issue 2, p9