A client is being transported to the ED after sustaining carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in a house fire. The nurse would prepare to administer
a. 100% oxygen therapy.
b. intermittent positive-pressure breathing.
c. suctioning.
d. ventilation with 50% oxygen by manual resuscitation bag.
A
CO poisoning is treated by inhalation of 100% oxygen to shorten the half-life of CO to about an hour. Hyperbaric oxygen may be required to reduce the half-life of CO to minutes by forcing it off of the hemoglobin molecule.
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