This clinical policy from the American College of Emergency Physicians addresses key
issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients presenting to the emergency
department with acute carbon monoxide poisoning. A writing subcommittee conducted a
systematic review of the literature to derive evidence-based recommendations to answer the
following clinical questions: 1) In emergency department patients with suspected acute
carbon monoxide poisoning, can noninvasive carboxyhemoglobin measurement be used to …