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- Bianca M Wahlen and Andreas R Thierbach.
- Department of Anaesthesiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Hospital, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55 131 Mainz, Germany. bwahlen@web.de
- Eur J Emerg Med. 2002 Dec 1; 9 (4): 348-50.
AbstractEach year, thousands of people are strangled. Survival from strangulation or hanging is often associated with various complications including a large variety of neurological consequences. As it is common knowledge that the GCS and other initial presenting findings bear a poor correlation to the ultimate outcome, aggressive resuscitation and treatment of post anoxic brain injury is indicated in every patient in absence of definite signs of death and irrespective of the duration of hypoxia or unconsciousness in cases of strangulation, especially in cases of suicidal near-hanging. These case reports describe two near-hanging episodes in patients with a normal neurological outcome.
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