@article{ref1,
title="Asphyxia using a piece of a sarong at a psychiatric unit: a case of self-strangulation",
journal="Archiwum Medycyny Sadowej i Kryminologii",
year="2018",
author="Sivasubramanium, Murugaphillai and Vadysinghe, Amal N. and Thilakarathne, S. M. Nirmani K.",
volume="68",
number="3",
pages="179-187",
abstract="Self-strangulation should be cautiously determined following a comprehensive death investigation because the circumstance of strangulation is usually homicide. The deceased was a 33-year-old male who suffered from depression and was found missing from a psychiatric unit while on treatment. The deceased was found the following day in the doctors' car park of the unit. The deceased was in a prone position with a strip of material from the sarong he was wearing round his neck and features of strangulation. Scene investigation and autopsy with the history of psychiatric disease confirmed self-strangulation. The rarity of self-strangulation, especially in a hospital, and the ligature material used being a strip of material from the sarong he was wearing inspired us to report this case.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0324-8267",
doi="10.5114/amsik.2018.83095",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/amsik.2018.83095"
}