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1: Anaesthesia. 2000 Dec;55(12):1189-91.Click here to read Links

Survival from a lethal blood concentration of cyanide with associated alcohol intoxication.

Kampe S, Iffland R, Korenkov M, Diefenbach C.

Department 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.

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.

PMID: 11121929 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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