Carbon Monoxide Diagnosis Requires Epidemiological Thinking More must be done to improve carbon monoxide diagnosis at hotels and emergency rooms. CO Poisoning must always be considered when multiple people are getting sick contemporaneously. By Rebecca Martin The deaths of three tourists ostensibly due to carbon monoxide poisoning in a Sandals Resort in the Bahamas raised […]
Carbon Monoxide Detectors in the News Month after month, deaths and brain damage occur because hotels don’t put carbon monoxide detectors in all hotel rooms. By Rebecca Martin A headline in The Washington Post says it all: Sandals will add carbon monoxide detectors after 3 deaths in Bahamas, “after” being the operative word. Although information […]
Following the Clues of Carbon Monoxide Exposure Too often important questions are never asked in identifying CO as in the Madison Apartment Carbon Monoxide Exposure. Carbon monoxide poisoning must be ruled out first. By Rebecca Martin Our blog last week about the Bahamian Sandals Resort preceded findings that carbon monoxide exposure had been the culprit […]
Carbon Monoxide Deaths are a preventable tragedy with 20 times more people being left with permanent brain damage than who die from it. By Rebecca Martin This week we learned that since the onset of the Covid crisis 2 1/2 years ago, one million Americans have lost their lives due to the Covid virus. A […]
Sandals Resort Vacation Deaths Still Mystery Vacation deaths continue to happen because hotels and resorts do not exercise due care with respect to carbon monoxide poisoning. By Rebecca Martin The approaching summer is a time to make vacation plans for many Americans not vacation deaths, like what happened at the Sandals Resort in the Bahamas. […]
Warm Weather CO – Preparedness is Key Warm weather CO risks correlate to severe storms and portable electric generator use, which must be used outdoors and no closer than 20 feet to structures. Generators should never be used in garages. By Rebecca Martin Inevitably warm weather brings severe weather advisories. For Part One of this […]
Carbon Monoxide Risks Are Year Round Carbon monoxide risks do not disappear with summer, as fuel burning appliances can poison anytime of year, even outside. Detectors continue to be a must as with awareness of the presence of exhaust from power tools and vehicles. By Rebecca Martin Following the plethora of warnings over carbon monoxide […]
High Levels of Carbon Monoxide at Lakeland Sleep Inn The Lakeland Sleep Inn, Lakeland, Florida is one more case of CO happening again at a hotel where safety wasn’t a priority. By Rebecca Martin We are beginning to wonder if it is karma. We write a blog about some huge safety failing in the hotel […]
Now is the Time for Effective Carbon Monoxide Detector Laws Carbon monoxide detector legislation is the only way to cut down on deaths and injuries from carbon monoxide poisoning, yet legislation still lags. By Rebecca Martin The carbon monoxide detector, developed in 1925, has been part of the safety technology scene for almost a century. […]
17 Hospitalized at UWM Dorm Cambridge Commons Bureaucratic stupidity and “rules don’t apply to us” thinking at the heart of the UWM Dorm Cambridge Commons carbon monoxide poisoning. By Attorney Gordon Johnson and Rebecca Martin In 2022, what landlord providing housing for 700 individuals doesn’t think they have a duty to install carbon monoxide detectors? Cambridge […]