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Available online /content/13/4/220 Review Bench-to-bedside review: Carbon monoxide - from mitochondrial poisoning to therapeutic use Inge Bauer and Benedikt HJ Pannen University Hospital Duesseldorf, Department of Anesthesiology, Moorenstrasse 5, D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany Corresponding author: Inge Bauer, Inge.Bauer@uni-duesseldorf.de Published: 14 August 2009 Critical Care 2009, 13:220 (doi:10.1186/cc7887) This article is online at /content/13/4/220 ? 2009 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract primarily by strongly binding to hemoglobin and forming carboxyhemoglobin (COHb), thereby