Wheelchair-Assisted Ligature Strangulation An Unusual Suicide by a Quadriparetic

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11150/19:10403666

Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000475" target="_blank" >10.1097/PAF.0000000000000475</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Wheelchair-Assisted Ligature Strangulation An Unusual Suicide by a Quadriparetic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Multiple sclerosis, currently incurable and potentially profoundly disabling demyelinating central nervous system disease, is associated with higher occurrence of suicide as affected individuals are prone to major depression and psychosis. Despite progressively incapacitating neurologic impairment, well-staffed institutions, and limited repertoire of methods of suicide, which prevents patients from purposefully ending their lives, suicide-determined patients typically commit suicide resulting from a medication overdose, sharp force traumata, self-neglect, or deliberate starvation. Here we describe a successful suicide committed by a 39-year-old wheelchair-bound, institutionalized, quadriparetic male patient with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis with secondary progressive clinical course who utilized his motorized wheelchair to terminate his life. He tied a rope between his neck and wall bars and then propelled the wheelchair forwardly. The acceleration of the wheelchair resulted in ligature self-strangulation. This case report, with a review of the literature, is noteworthy for the rareness of the wheelchair-related fatality combined with an unusual, if not entirely unseen, suicidal mechanism in severely disabled adult.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Wheelchair-Assisted Ligature Strangulation An Unusual Suicide by a Quadriparetic

Popis výsledku anglicky

Multiple sclerosis, currently incurable and potentially profoundly disabling demyelinating central nervous system disease, is associated with higher occurrence of suicide as affected individuals are prone to major depression and psychosis. Despite progressively incapacitating neurologic impairment, well-staffed institutions, and limited repertoire of methods of suicide, which prevents patients from purposefully ending their lives, suicide-determined patients typically commit suicide resulting from a medication overdose, sharp force traumata, self-neglect, or deliberate starvation. Here we describe a successful suicide committed by a 39-year-old wheelchair-bound, institutionalized, quadriparetic male patient with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis with secondary progressive clinical course who utilized his motorized wheelchair to terminate his life. He tied a rope between his neck and wall bars and then propelled the wheelchair forwardly. The acceleration of the wheelchair resulted in ligature self-strangulation. This case report, with a review of the literature, is noteworthy for the rareness of the wheelchair-related fatality combined with an unusual, if not entirely unseen, suicidal mechanism in severely disabled adult.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

30501 - Forensic science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

ISSN

0195-7910

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

40

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

5

Strana od-do

160-164

Kód UT WoS článku

000468487300015

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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