New Cause of Death under Chloroform

Death under Chloroform

A Study of the Cause of Death Among Children Under 5 Years in Babol Amirkola Children Hospital During 1993-1997

The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of the cause of death among children under 5 years with respect to the age and sex in Amirkola Children Hospital. The data of 536 child death was obtained during l 993-1997 on the basis of ultimate diagnosis in the death certificate using disease classification. The results shows that the most common cause of death in the neonatal p...

An unexplained death: Hannah Greener and chloroform.

HANNAH Greener of Winlaton, near Newcastle in the United Kingdom, died more than 150 yr ago, on January 28, 1848, after receiving a chloroform anesthetic for the removal of a toenail. She was a healthy 15-yr-old girl who had successfully undergone an anesthetic with diethyl ether several months before for the removal of another toenail. Hers was the first death (fig. 1) attributed to the new an...

Aldosterone-induced vasculopathy: a new reversible cause of cardiac death.

JRAAS 2001;2:211-14 The traditional view is that angiotensin II (Ang II) is the principal culprit in the renin-angiotensinaldosterone system (RAAS). However, it is now appreciated that aldosterone is a second culprit and that the harmful effects of aldosterone are additional to those of Ang II. The relative importance of Ang II and aldosterone can be illustrated by the fact that during chronic ...

A New Theory of Chloroform Syncope

The author says in the preface : " Nothing but a strong conviction of being in the right could justify the author of the following pages for expressing views which must give a violent wrench to preconceived opinions, and which will almost certainly be met with opposition from all parties. In justice to himself, and as some explanation of the revolutionary statements here made, it may be added t...