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January 21, 2008

New efforts to prevent carbon monoxide deaths

The state Department of Health plans to require hospitals to buy carbon monoxide screening equipment as part of a campaign to prevent deaths from the toxic and odorless gas.

The effort, scheduled to be announced tomorrow, comes two weeks after a woman, her boyfriend and her 14-year-old son died in their Providence home after their boiler apparently began leaking carbon monoxide.

Health Department Director David R. Gifford has proposed an amendment to hospital licensing regulations that would compel the purchase of carbon monoxide screening instruments, such as a type of a pulse oximeter that measures carbon monoxide levels in addition to the oxygen content in a patient’s blood.

-- Journal staff writer Benjamin N. Gedan

Posted by Benjamin N. Gedan  at 6:45 PM | Permalink

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