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[A case of fatal acute sodium azide poisoning]
Chudoku Kenkyu : Chudoku Kenkyukai Jun Kikanshi = the Japanese Journal of Toxicology
|January 25, 2002
Abstract:
A case of fatal sodium azide poisoning induced by suicidal ingestion was reported. When the patient arrived, her vital signs such as consciousness and blood pressure, were normal. But 25 hours after ingestion, she died from metabolic acidosis, ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) and acute cardiac failure. We detected the azide ion in patient's serum using GCMS method and measured the blood concentration of sodium azide using the GC/NPD method. The half-life period of sodium azide in blood was calculated as about 2.5 hours.