Pacific partnership 2010: Anesthesia support aboard the USNS Mercy humanitarian civic assistance.

Introduction: The USNS Mercy has been integral in providing humanitarian and civic assistance as part of the Department of Defense's ongoing Combatant Commander Theater Security Cooperation Plans. The purpose of this study was to critically assess patient demographics and procedures performed to provide guidance for future missions.

Methods: A retrospective review was performed on a cohort of 825 surgical patients who underwent surgery during a 4-month period during Pacific Partnership 2010.

Increased long-term mortality among survivors of acute carbon monoxide poisoning.

Objective: Recent data suggest that patients surviving acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning (COP) may have increased risk for long-term mortality. The objective of this study was to analyze long-term mortality of a large population of CO-poisoned patients treated at one medical center over three decades.

Design: Retrospective cohort study of patients treated with hyperbaric oxygen and surviving the acute poisoning episode.

Risk factors for short-term mortality from carbon monoxide poisoning treated with hyperbaric oxygen.

Objective: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is common in the United States, accounting for approximately 2,700 deaths annually. Few publications have described the mortality rate of CO-poisoned patients who survive to reach a hospital and die despite maximal medical care. Further, while risk factors for cognitive sequelae in survivors of CO poisoning have become clearer recently, factors associated with death are less well defined.

Carboxyhemoglobin levels in carbon monoxide poisoning: do they correlate with the clinical picture?

Objective: It is commonly written that carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) measurements correlate with the clinical presentation of patients poisoned with carbon monoxide (CO). However, the evidence supporting this concept is scanty. The present study was performed to analyze COHb measurements in a large population of patients with CO poisoning to determine whether clinically significant correlates exist.