The Treatment of Carbon Monoxid Asphyxia by Means of Oxygen + Co2 Inhalation

At a meeting of the Commission on Resuscitation from Carbon Monoxid Asphyxia on Nov. 15, 1921, the writers were appointed a subcommittee to conduct investigations both in the field and in the laboratory on the treatment of carbon monoxid asphyxia by the inhalational method, to be here described. There is already available a considerable mass of theoretical knowledge and experimental material on which to base further advance along the line indicated. Recent investigations in this laboratory1have confirmed the correctness of the view that carbon monoxid has no direct toxic action on the brain, or other organs or tissues of the body, except only the blood. It acts wholly through its combination with the hemoglobin or red coloring matter of the blood. When so combined, the hemoglobin is for the time deprived of the power to transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body. A condition