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Intoxicación por Arsénico , Medicina Tradicional , Intoxicación por Mercurio/etiología , Adulto , Humanos , India , Londres , Masculino , Intoxicación por Mercurio/tratamiento farmacológico , Intoxicación/tratamiento farmacológico , Intoxicación/etiología , Succímero/uso terapéutico , Unitiol/uso terapéuticoRESUMEN
Cocaine is one of the most rapidly growing drugs of abuse and with it comes an ever-increasing sophistication in concealment from Customs and Police, and may even result in clinicians failing to detect the concealment of packages within the intestinal tract or other body orifices. We present one such case where death arose from rupture of a package of cocaine within the rectum.
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Cocaína/envenenamiento , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Paro Cardíaco/inducido químicamente , Fibrilación Ventricular/inducido químicamente , Cocaína/farmacocinética , Sistema Digestivo/patología , Femenino , Paro Cardíaco/patología , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Fibrilación Ventricular/patologíaRESUMEN
Two cases of death associated with amyl nitrite are discussed. An attempt is made to highlight its noxious properties and the difficulty in attributing death to it when inhaled.
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Nitrito de Amila/envenenamiento , Muerte Súbita/patología , Homicidio/legislación & jurisprudencia , Administración por Inhalación , Administración Oral , Adulto , Autopsia , Causas de Muerte , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana EdadRESUMEN
Two inpatients of one hospital ward died. Pilocarpine poisoning was suspected and subsequently confirmed by analysis of urine. The circumstantial evidence strongly suggested that the food given to the patients in the ward had been adulterated. Police inquiries failed to elicit any further information, and open verdicts were returned at the inquest. Precautions taken subsequently to prevent a similar event--sealing food containers and trolleys--entailed a capital cost of 43,000 pounds. In addition, food stores were kept locked and tighter control kept on drugs stored in ward pharmacies.
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Muerte Súbita/etiología , Servicio de Alimentación en Hospital/normas , Pilocarpina/envenenamiento , Anciano , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Disnea/inducido químicamente , Inglaterra , Femenino , Contaminación de Alimentos/análisis , Humanos , Pilocarpina/orina , Medidas de SeguridadAsunto(s)
Líquidos Corporales/análisis , Compuestos de Dansilo , Glucosa/análisis , Glucemia/análisis , Cromatografía Líquida de Alta Presión , Estabilidad de Medicamentos , Glucosa/líquido cefalorraquídeo , Humanos , Hidrazinas , Espectrometría de Fluorescencia , Temperatura , Factores de Tiempo , Cuerpo Vítreo/análisisRESUMEN
Radioimmunoassay, high-performance liquid chromatography and capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were used to detect and measure LSD in the first reported case of fatal poisoning by LSD. The levels found in ante-mortem serum and plasma and in post-mortem blood, liver blood and stomach contents are given.
