Carbon Monoxide Poisonings Rise As Temperatures Dip

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As winter approaches and more people turn on furnaces and heaters to get warm or run cars in garages, the number of carbon monoxide poisonings will increase, according to Dr. Lynn Weaver, medical director of hyperbaric medicine and co-director of the shock-trauma unit at LDS Hospital, where last week a Salt Lake-area family was treated for CO poisoning.

Jennifer Morrison woke up Sunday with a splitting headache, then kept drifting back to sleep. When she tried to go upstairs, she passed out. Upstairs, her grandfather, Richard Morrison, was sprawled in the hallway, calling her name but unable to get up. Her grandmother, Carol Morrison, was in the bathroom, "out of it."

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Carbon Monoxide Poisonings Rise As Temperatures Dip

The Morrisons were lucky for several reasons: Richard Morrison, while unable to move much, kept...

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