SUICIDAL INTOXICATION WITH SEDATIVE SOPORIFIC DRUGS—AN ANALYSIS OF 6 CASES / 中国法医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Six cases of suicidal sedative-soporific drug poisoning is reported.The main clinical features were coma,respiratory depression,hypotension,disappearance of reflexes and peripherel circulatory failure.Thepathological fingdings were as followspulmonary congestion and edema;fatty degeneration of the liver;degeneration of the epithalial cells of the proximal convoluted tubules and cerebral edema.The severityof the pathological changes depend upon the duration between the drug administration and the time of deathThe longer the course,the more prominent the changes.The fatality rate related with the dose of drugadministration,the underlying deseases and the complications.