Citation

Brown VL, Espinosa J. J. Emerg. Nurs. 1991; 17(6): 386-389.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Emergency Nurses Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1749144

Abstract

Near-hanging injuries result in respiratory, cardiac, neurologic, metabolic, and psychiatric problems. A patient surviving an attempted hanging can arrive at the emergency department in a comatose state, as documented in case 1, or in a conscious but disoriented state, as in case 2. Severe neurologic deficits are often reversible in cases of near-hanging. Regardless of initial findings, aggressive treatment of near-hanging victims should be initiated.

Language: en