This syndrome was created to capture Kansas ED Visits with chief complaints related to carbon monoxide poisoning/exposure or similar diagnosis codes. The terms "heater" and "generator" are included to potentially capture cases of improper heater and generator use that did not receive relevant CO poisoning terms or codes.
Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE
Data Source - Emergency Room Visits
Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis)
Syndrome Definition
carbon OR monox OR copois OR co pois OR T58
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