RESUMO
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.
Assuntos
Morte Súbita/etiologia , Serviço Hospitalar de Nutrição/normas , Pilocarpina/intoxicação , Idoso , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Dispneia/induzido quimicamente , Inglaterra , Feminino , Contaminação de Alimentos/análise , Humanos , Pilocarpina/urina , Medidas de SegurançaAssuntos
Líquidos Corporais/análise , Compostos de Dansil , Glucose/análise , Glicemia/análise , Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Pressão , Estabilidade de Medicamentos , Glucose/líquido cefalorraquidiano , Humanos , Hidrazinas , Espectrometria de Fluorescência , Temperatura , Fatores de Tempo , Corpo Vítreo/análiseRESUMO
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.
