Citation

Prahlow JA, Doyle BW. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2005; 26(2): 177-180.

Affiliation

South Bend Medical Foundation and Indiana University School of Medicine–South Bend Center for Medical Education at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana; and the †Porter County Coronerʼs Office, Valparaiso, Indiana.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15894855

Abstract

Deaths related to carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning are common. Most represent accidents and suicides, and most result from CO production via the incomplete combustion of carbon-containing substances. Suicide via CO toxicity is not uncommon and typically involves the use of motor-vehicle exhaust as a source of CO. Presented herein is a case of suicidal CO poisoning in which the CO was produced via a chemical reaction between formic acid and sulfuric acid within a homemade device.