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Citation

Nithin MD, Manjulatha B, Pramod Kumar GN. J. Forensic Res. 2012; 4(Spec. Iss.): S1:001.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, The author(s), Publisher OMICS Publishing Group)

DOI

10.4172/2157-7145.S1-001

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Hanging is a common mode of committing suicide among suicide cases. The death occurs within few minutes of hanging. In hanging, death is usually due to asphyxia or cerebral anoxia or vagal inhibition leading to cardiac arrest or injury to the spinal cord. Mainly respiratory and neurological complications such as pulmonary or neurogenic edema resulting in post-obstructive pulmonary distress, aspiration pneumonitis, ARDS, seizures, hypotension, neck vessel compression and cerebral hypoxia and multi organ failure can arise as fatal complications of hanging. Here we report 3 cases of delayed deaths due to suicidal hanging with the victims eventually succumbing to one or more of the fatal complications after surviving for different time duration.

Suicidal hanging; Delayed deaths; Cerebral hypoxia; Asphyxia; Hypotension; Pulmonary edema; Convulsions

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