Citation

Sabermoghaddam M, Abad M, Golmakani E, Mozaffari N. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2015; 36(2): 56-57.

Affiliation

From the *Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad; and †Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnord, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PAF.0000000000000140

PMID

25747958

Abstract

Hanging is known not only as a common method of suicide but also as a capital punishment method in some countries. Although several cases have been reported to survive after the attempted suicidal/accidental hanging, to the extent of our knowledge, no modern case of survival after judicial hanging exists. We reported a case of an individual who revived after modern judicial hanging despite being declared dead. The case was admitted with poor clinical presentations and the Glasgow Coma Scale of 6/15. The victim received all the standard supportive intensive care and gained complete clinical recovery.

Language: en