1. Acute Cyanide Poisoning from Jewelry Cleaning Solutions
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Anouar Nouioui, Fathia Khlifi, Dorra Ben Salah, Nedia Chaouali, Ines Bel Waer, Hayet Ghorbel, Abderrazzek Hedhili, Wafa Masri, Ines Gana, and Dorra Amira
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lcsh:R5-920 ,Waste management ,Epidemiology ,Chemistry ,Smoke inhalation ,Cyanide ,Biochemistry (medical) ,Potassium cyanide ,Toxicology ,medicine.disease ,Acute toxicity ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Environmental chemistry ,medicine ,Cyanide poisoning ,Cyanide, Poisoning, Jewelry Cleaning Solution, Suicide ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,Law - Abstract
Cyanide is one of the most lethal and devastating poisons. It causes acute toxicity through smoke inhalation simultaneously with carbon monoxide, or by ingestion of cyanide salts that are commonly used in metallurgy and in jewelry or textile industries. Cyanide intoxication is an extremely rare event; in the present study, we report a case of cyanide poisoning involving a 25-year-old jeweler, who ingested a jewelry cleaning solution containing potassium cyanide in a suicide attempt.
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- 2015