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===Toxicology=== | ===Toxicology=== | ||
*Carboxyhemoglobin.<ref>{{Ref OPMfP|18}}</ref> | *Carboxyhemoglobin.<ref>{{Ref OPMfP|18}}</ref> | ||
==Hydrogen sulfide== | |||
===General=== | |||
*Fashionable for suicides; has high mortality and may be toxic to responders/death investors.<ref name=pmid20920221>{{cite journal |author=Morii D, Miyagatani Y, Nakamae N, Murao M, Taniyama K |title=Japanese experience of hydrogen sulfide: the suicide craze in 2008 |journal=J Occup Med Toxicol |volume=5 |issue= |pages=28 |year=2010 |pmid=20920221 |pmc=2954931 |doi=10.1186/1745-6673-5-28 |url=}}</ref> | |||
*Lab: ''thiosulfate'' - not available in Canada as of 2010. | |||
**Can be generated by mixing a source of sulfide with an acid ''or'' ingesting the sulfide which will then react with stomach acid. | |||
*Mechanism: bonds to mitochondrial cytochrome enzymes.<ref name=pmid18695173>{{cite journal |author=Truscott A |title=Suicide fad threatens neighbours, rescuers |journal=CMAJ |volume=179 |issue=4 |pages=312–3 |year=2008 |month=August |pmid=18695173 |pmc=2492967 |doi=10.1503/cmaj.080878 |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2492967/?tool=pubmed}}</ref> | |||
===Toxicology=== | |||
*Classically has the smell of "rotten eggs".<ref name=pmid20920221>{{cite journal |author=Morii D, Miyagatani Y, Nakamae N, Murao M, Taniyama K |title=Japanese experience of hydrogen sulfide: the suicide craze in 2008 |journal=J Occup Med Toxicol |volume=5 |issue= |pages=28 |year=2010 |pmid=20920221 |pmc=2954931 |doi=10.1186/1745-6673-5-28 |url=}}</ref> | |||
*Lab: ''thiosulfate'' - not available in Canada as of 2010. | |||
==Manual strangulation== | ==Manual strangulation== | ||