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Survival from a lethal blood concentration of cyanide with associated alcohol intoxication
S Kampe1, R Iffland, M Korenkov
1Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, Germany; Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Cologne, 50823 Cologne, Melatengürtel 60-62, Germany; Depart.
Anaesthesia
|December 21, 2000
Abstract:
We present a patient with a lethal blood concentration of cyanide. Additionally, he was found to have an alcohol blood level of 270 mg. dl-1, but made a complete recovery following administration of the antidotes dimethylaminophenol and thiosulphate. It is postulated that the patient may have been able to detoxify himself as a result of metabolism of cyanide to the non-toxic form, thiocyanate.