title: Status epilepticus and cardiopulmonary arrest in a patient with carbon monoxide poisoning with full recovery after using a neuroprotective strategy: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Carbon monoxide poisoning can be associated with life-threatening complications, including significant and disabling cardiovascular and neurological sequelae.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of carbon monoxide poisoning in a 25-year-old Saudi woman who presented to our facility with status epilepticus and cardiopulmonary arrest. Her carboxyhemoglobin level was 21.4 percent. She made a full recovery after we utilized a neuroprotective strategy and normobaric oxygen therapy, with no delayed neurological sequelae.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Brain protective modalities are very important for the treatment of complicated cases of carbon monoxide poisoning when they present with neurological toxicities or cardiac arrest. They can be adjunctive to normobaric oxygen therapy when the use of hyperbaric oxygen is not feasible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, PO Box 22490, Riyadh, 11426, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. dr-salman@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Salman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abdulaziz
authors.forename: Ousama
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Dabbagh
authors.forename: Yaseen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arabi
authors.forename: Suleiman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kojan
authors.forename: Imad
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hassan