دورية أكاديمية
Is old stuff back? A fatal case of ethyl chloride sniffing
| العنوان: | Is old stuff back? A fatal case of ethyl chloride sniffing |
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| المؤلفون: | Jennifer P. Pascali, Paolo Fais, Guido Viel, Giovanni Cecchetto, Massimo Montisci |
| المصدر: | Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-4 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | SpringerOpen, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence LCC:Medicine (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Forensic science, Forensic toxicology, Ethyl chloride, Chloroethane, Sudden sniffing deaths, Gas chromatography, Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence, K1-7720, Medicine (General), R5-920 |
| الوصف: | Abstract Background Ethyl chloride (EC) or chloroethane is a colourless halogenated hydrocarbon gas regularly employed as a topical anaesthetic spray for pain-related injuries and muscle spasm in athletes. However, EC became also popular as a street drug in the 1980s. Brief inhalations of EC vapour can result in dizziness, euphoria, confusion, incoordination, hallucinosis, impairment of short-term memory and narcosis. Inhalation of higher doses, usually employed to “get high”, may be related to severe depression of the central nervous system. Indeed, toxicity and deaths have been reported so far. Case presentation A 40-year-old man was found unresponsive after EC inhalation. EC determination was performed by dynamic headspace gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. EC was detected in the peripheral blood (0.156 g/L), central blood concentration (0.203 g/L) and the lung and brain (19 and 25 mg/kg). EC in the vitreous humour showed a sensitively lower respect to blood (0.018 vs 0.203 g/L). Conclusions Considering the results of toxicological analyses of investigations on the death scene besides the absence of any signs of trauma, death was attributed to inhalation of ethyl chloride. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2090-5939 |
| Relation: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41935-019-0136-4; https://doaj.org/toc/2090-5939 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s41935-019-0136-4 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/d1148ff2c30d4ff398f1022d88668d84 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.1148ff2c30d4ff398f1022d88668d84 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20905939 |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s41935-019-0136-4 |