Letter to the Editor: Diabetic Foot and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Diabetic foot is an important public health problem. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is one of the adjunctive methods used in the management of diabetic foot. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy excerts its beneficial effects by relieving wound hypoxia. Patients with ischemic wounds are potential candidates for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. [TAF Prev Med Bull 2011; 10(3.000): 255-256

Same Exposure, Various Clinical Pictures: The Carbon Monoxide Enigma

-Children and adolescents exposed to the same source of carbon monoxide have been shown to demonstrate different clinical pictures (1,2). The same condition probably may be extrapolated between children with varying ages and hence lung surface areas. Smaller children will receive larger doses of carbon monoxide, because they have greater lung surface area/body weight ratios and increased minute volumes/weight ratios. As carbon monoxide accumulation is expected to be more significant nearer to the ground, another explanation for varying clinical pictures in poisoning events may be the different level of sleeping positions of the casualties. Herein, we report a cluster poisoning of carbon monoxide affecting 5 children from the same family at the same time but in different clinical pictures. [TAF Prev Med Bull 2013; 12(1.000): 118-118