Citation

Dvir A, Dagan Z, Mizrachi A, Eisenkraft A. Am. J. Disaster Med. 2021; 16(1): 75-80.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, American Society of Disaster Medicine, Publisher Weston Medical Publishing)

DOI

10.5055/ajdm.2021.0389

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A 19-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department 7 hours after a suicide attempt with an intra-abdominal injection of self-prepared ricin solution. In the following 6 days, she has developed multiorgan-failure, and despite all intensive care interventions-including plasma exchange, high-frequency ventilation, and continuous renal replacement -therapy-she passed away. We describe in detail the chain of events and discuss shortly the known literature about this rare poisoning.

Language: en