Near hanging: Early intervention can save lives

Hanging is a common method of suicide/homicide in the Indian scenario. We report three successive cases of attempted suicidal hangings seen over a period of 4 months in our intensive care wards. All of them presented gasping with poor clinical status and required immediate intubation, resuscitation,...

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Published in:Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
Main Authors: Ritika Gandhi, Neeta Taneja, Paritosh Mazumder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2011-01-01
Subjects:
Cerebral hypoxia
cervical spine fracture
near hanging
Online Access:http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2011;volume=55;issue=4;spage=388;epage=391;aulast=Gandhi

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