Delayed Pulmonary Oedema Following Attempted Suicidal Hanging–A Case Report

SUMMARY: During suicidal hanging, death takes few minutes to occur. Patient, if rescued, may develop respiratory distress, pulmonary oedema, convulsions, raised intra cranial pressure and unconsciousness immediately after incidence. We report a young male of suicidal hanging, brought to hospital in...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Mahendra, Mandhyan, Rajani, Shukla, Usha, Kumar, Ashok, Rautela, R S
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640148
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author Kumar, Mahendra
Mandhyan, Rajani
Shukla, Usha
Kumar, Ashok
Rautela, R S
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description SUMMARY: During suicidal hanging, death takes few minutes to occur. Patient, if rescued, may develop respiratory distress, pulmonary oedema, convulsions, raised intra cranial pressure and unconsciousness immediately after incidence. We report a young male of suicidal hanging, brought to hospital in unconscious state with decerebrating movements. He developed pulmonary oedema after two hours of incidence. He was resuscitated and treated successfully.
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spelling pubmed-29001312010-07-16 Delayed Pulmonary Oedema Following Attempted Suicidal Hanging–A Case Report Kumar, Mahendra Mandhyan, Rajani Shukla, Usha Kumar, Ashok Rautela, R S Indian J Anaesth Case Report SUMMARY: During suicidal hanging, death takes few minutes to occur. Patient, if rescued, may develop respiratory distress, pulmonary oedema, convulsions, raised intra cranial pressure and unconsciousness immediately after incidence. We report a young male of suicidal hanging, brought to hospital in unconscious state with decerebrating movements. He developed pulmonary oedema after two hours of incidence. He was resuscitated and treated successfully. Medknow Publications 2009-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2900131/ /pubmed/20640148 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shukla, Usha
Kumar, Ashok
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Delayed Pulmonary Oedema Following Attempted Suicidal Hanging–A Case Report
title Delayed Pulmonary Oedema Following Attempted Suicidal Hanging–A Case Report
title_full Delayed Pulmonary Oedema Following Attempted Suicidal Hanging–A Case Report
title_fullStr Delayed Pulmonary Oedema Following Attempted Suicidal Hanging–A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Delayed Pulmonary Oedema Following Attempted Suicidal Hanging–A Case Report
title_short Delayed Pulmonary Oedema Following Attempted Suicidal Hanging–A Case Report
title_sort delayed pulmonary oedema following attempted suicidal hanging–a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640148
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