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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Is it Time to End the Debates?

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Funding for this work was provided by the National Institutes of Health grant numbers E305211 and AT00428. The author has no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this editorial.

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Thom, S.R. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Toxicol Rev 24, 157–158 (2005). https://doi.org/10.2165/00139709-200524030-00006

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