@article{ref1,
title="Acute Toxic Herbal Intake in a Suicide Attempt and Fatal Refractory Ventricular Arrhythmia",
journal="Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology",
year="2010",
author="Strzelecki, Antoine and Pichon, Nicolas and Gaulier, J. M. and Amiel, Jean B. and Champy, Pauline and Clavel, Marc",
volume="107",
number="2",
pages="698-699",
abstract="<p>This report involves a 54-year-old man who died following refractory ventricular fibrillation after ingestion of a plant in a suicide attempt. Repeated direct-current cardioversions were unsuccessful and no single anti-arrhythmic agent was effective for arrhythmia control. The routine blood toxicological screening was negative. Aconitine, the main toxin of Aconitum napellus was identified using a specific liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method. The whole blood concentration (24 mug/l) was higher than those reported in other aconitine-related deaths. The patient had found information about the life-threatening nature of such a toxic herb intake on a free medical encyclopaedia online.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1742-7835",
doi="10.1111/j.1742-7843.2010.00566.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-7843.2010.00566.x"
}