Email this article DEATH BY INHALATION OF BUTANE
- Authors: Tarhnishvili G.S.1,2, Klevno V.A.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Bureau of Forensic and Medical Examination of the Moscow Region
- M.F. Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute
- Issue: No 4 (2018)
- Pages: 10-14
- Section: Articles
- Published: 28.08.2018
- URL: https://rjsocmed.com/0869-7922/article/view/641047
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.36946/0869-7922-2018-4-10-14
- ID: 641047
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Abstract
Due to the widespread of smoking and accessories for it many teenagers in the world and in our country inhale gas for lighter refills (butane) – this phenomenon is called «sniffing». In some cases sudden death occurs at intensive actions. It is connected with the fact that butane is inhalation drug and sensitizes a myocardium to arrhythmogenic effects of catecholamines. In experiments on rats the arrhythmogenic and secondary ischemic effect at butane inhalation has been shown. Death occurs as a result of sudden arrhythmias.
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G. S. Tarhnishvili
Bureau of Forensic and Medical Examination of the Moscow Region;M.F. Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute
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Russian Federation
V. A. Klevno
Bureau of Forensic and Medical Examination of the Moscow Region;M.F. Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute
Email: noemail@neicon.ru
Russian Federation
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