Profile of suicidalcut throat injury in a tertiarycare hospital
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 5
Abstract
Suicide is one of the leading cause of death. Though suicidal cut throat is uncommon but it is still encountered in emergency practice of an otorhinolarygologist. A prospective study of 10 cases from January 2014 to Jan. 2018 was done in Regional Institute Medical Sciences,imphal. All patients were males in the age group of 21 to 30 years. All the patients had one or more history ofsubstance abuse while 7 patients had history of psychiatric consultation.All of them presented with hesitation cut injury over the neck. One patient underwent emergency tracheostomy, and no death was observed.
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Devi P S, Lido Kamgo, Rituparna Saha, Lucy Laino, Tony Borang
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