Citation

Aggarwal NK, Kishore U, Agarwal BB. Med. Sci. Law 2000; 40(3): 270-272.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/002580240004000314

PMID

10976192

Abstract

Hanging is one of the most common methods of suicide in India in which death of the individual occurs instantaneously. However, a few cases have been reported in literature in which death has occurred after a certain period of time or the patient has survived after prolonged resuscitative measures. A case of a 20-year-old female is described who survived for nine days after hanging, remaining unconscious throughout in the hospital. She died due to cerebral damage caused by cerebral anoxia.

Language: en

Keywords

*Suicide; Adult; Asphyxia/*pathology; Brain Ischemia/*etiology/*pathology; Cause of Death; Female; Humans; Time Factors