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Carbon monoxide-related fatalities: A 60-year single institution experience

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2017

Abstract

Though carbon monoxide (CO) poisonings account currently for a relatively small percentage of total non-natural deaths in Europe, they represent a serious public health burden and significant component of avoidable mortality in many countries. Our aim was to investigate long-term trends and to determine epidemiologic characteristics of the CO-related deaths in the Czech Republic, recorded at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Hradec Králové.