The effects of carbon monoxide poisoning have been found to be greatly alleviated, or in some cases eliminated, through the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. This paper discusses the pathophysiology of carbon monoxide intoxication and presents an overview of its treatment.

The possibility of continuously monitoring arterial blood oxygen and carbon dioxide using heated surface electrodes on human skin was discovered in the early 1970s and made commercially available by 1976.  These devices were applied initially to premature infants in an effort to reduce the incidence of blindness due...

Postoperative monitoring in critical care patients has become a widening field over the past few decades. Improvements in outcome can be related to advances in this field as well as in intraoperative management and preoperative assessment.