Citation

Yashiki M, Miyazaki T, Iwasaki Y, Taniguchi T, Kojima T. Nippon Hoigaku Zasshi 1992; 46(4): 282-285.

Affiliation

Department of Legal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Nihon Hoi Gakkai)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1405022

Abstract

A 25-year-old male anesthesiologist was found dead in his room with an intravenous drip line connected with his leg. There were several empty ampules of pancuronium, midazolam and buprenorphine around him. Pancuronium and midazolam in the blood and urine samples collected at postmortem examination were detected by spectrofluorometry and ECD-gas chromatography, respectively. The concentrations of pancuronium and midazolam were 0.3 micrograms/g and 0.12 micrograms/g in the blood, respectively; 0.9 micrograms/g and 0.05 micrograms/g in the urine, respectively. The cause of death was determined to be asphyxia due to respiratory muscle paralysis caused by pancuronium.

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