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Emergency casebook
Carbon monoxide poisoning associated with Narghile use
Abstract
The case history is presented of a healthy 25-year-old man who was admitted to hospital after two syncopal episodes caused by carbon monoxide poisoning after smoking narghile. Clinicians should be aware of this association when they evaluate syncope in the emergency department, especially in narghile users.
- Carbon monoxide
- poisoning
- narghile
- hookah
- waterpipe
- nursing
- emergency departments
- toxicology
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Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.
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