Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge Notes

Submitted by Roland Roberts on Mon, 10/19/2015 - 17:45

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Requirement 3: Show how you could safely save a person from the following:

b. A room filled with carbon monoxide.

Should the placement of carbon monoxide (CO) detectors be influenced by CO's weight relative to air? J Emerg Med. 2012 Apr;42(4):478-82. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2011.03.015. Epub 2011 May 4. "Contrary to a significant amount of public opinion, CO did not layer on the floor, float at the middle of the chamber, or rise to the top. In each case, the levels of CO equalized throughout the test chamber. It took longer to equalize when CO was infused at the top of the chamber than the bottom, but levels always became identical with time."