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Suicidal Cut Throat Injuries: Management Modalities
Suicide is defined as the act of taking one’s life. This self destructive act constitutes an individual intentionally or ambivalently taking his or her own life. Suicidal behavior is any deliberate action with potentially life-threatening consequences, such as taking a drug overdose or deliberately crashing a car. Oftentimes suicide is committed by individuals suffering from a mental illness; t...
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INTRODUCTION Suicidal cut throat injuries are either unreported or fortunately rare in our country. The management of these injuries requires a multi-disciplinary approach. CASE PRESENTATIONS This paper presents our experiences with managing three unemployed adult Nigerian males - two of Hausa ethnicity and one from the Tiv ethnic group presenting with cut throat injuries following suicidal a...
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BACKGROUND Cut throat injuries though rarely reported in literature pose a great therapeutic challenge because multiple vital structures are vulnerable to injuries in the small, confined unprotected area. A sudden increase in the number of cut throat patients in our centre in recent years prompted the authors to analyze this problem. This study was conducted in our local setting to describe the...
متن کاملAn Unusual Case of Cut Throat
as petition writer in Pyuntaza post office from where he was also dismissed. He became a Sadhu in Decern* ber 1935 and roamed about the country. On the 8th January, 1936, some unknown men were said to have attacked him with dahs and inflicted a severe cutthroat wound and a large incised wound on the penisHe was said to have struggled along for three days with these injuries and reached a hut an...
متن کاملA case of severely cut throat.
A 42-year-old man was admitted to hospital with serious neck injuries and partial exposure of the oropharynx. He was sedated and the larynx and trachea were anaesthetized with lignocaine to allow endotracheal intubation. In the course of these procedures, previously unsuspected injuries of the tongue and soft palate were discovered. The contraindications to endotracheal intubation under general...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1012-5574,2090-8539
DOI: 10.4103/1012-5574.138493