Jessica Taschner was in a coma for a week and her boyfriend died after they were poisoned by carbon monoxide (CO) from a propane\u002Drun fridge.
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Taschner and LaTorre met at that cabin in their early teens. She spent summers there with her family, in the cabin her grandparents had built in the 1950s, while LaTorre vacationed at a friend’s nearby cabin. “It makes you not think clearly,” she said of the effects of CO poisoning. “By the time you’re really sick, there’s no critical thinking on my end.”Later, Taschner will be told her parents arrived at the cabin Saturday evening and found her unconscious and LaTorre deceased.Article content
Carbon monoxide is produced by burning of gasoline, wood, propane and other fossil fuels. If not properly ventilated, the gas can accumulate to dangerous levels. Symptoms of CO poisoning include headaches, dizziness, nausea, seizures, coma and death.Article content The hyperbaric chamber at Vancouver General Hospital, which is used to treat patients exposed to carbon monoxide poisoning.Dr. Bruce Campana, emergency and hyperbaric medicine physician, said his unit treats between 20 and 40 patients every year, while milder cases are treated at local hospitals. On average, about 55 people are taken to VGH’s emergency department every year, said Vancouver Coastal Health.
Campana said Taschner’s CO poisoning case was one of the more severe ones he had seen. Patients typically undergo one to three sessions in the chamber, he said; Taschner had three.
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