In its turn, this entails tissue hypoxia in the organs, which need a lot of oxygen, particularly a heart and brain.
There are many groups of the population that are at high risk of being affected by carbon monoxide. Specifically, the groups include people suffering from cardiovascular diseases, the low level of hemoglobin and chronic lung diseases. The children can be referred to the risk group because they spend a lot of time in playing on the street and have larger lung ventilation as against adults. Further, roadmen, steelmakers, oil-industry workers and the like are also at high risk of being affected by carbon monoxide.
Smokers form the especially vulnerable group of people affected by carbon monoxide. On the average moderate and great smokers have a 5% and 15% carboxyhemoglobin content respectively. Given low concentration of carbon monoxide in the environment, the carboxyhemoglobin content of man’s blood does not exceed 2%.
On the basis of their researches into the above problem scientists of the Institute of Applied Problems of Physics and Biophysics (IAPPB) under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine have developed a device for checking condition of a man suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. The device is based on the comprehensive estimation of the parameters, which can determine the dynamics of condition of a person suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. These parameters embrace concentration of carboxyhemoglobin in blood, activity of the cardiovascular system, hemodynamics, concentration of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in expired air. A microprocessor handles the gathered data, performing calculations that results in the determination of a level of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Researchers of the Institute of Applied Problems of Physics and Biophysics hold three patents of Ukraine on this advanced development.
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