PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Howell, M A
AU  - Guly, H R
TI  - Near hanging presenting to an accident and emergency department.
AID  - 10.1136/emj.13.2.135
DP  - 1996 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine
PG  - 135--136
VI  - 13
IP  - 2
4099  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/13/2/135.short
4100  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/13/2/135.full
SO  - Arch Emerg Med1996 Mar 01; 13
AB  - Victims of near hanging are being increasingly seen in accident and emergency (A&E) department. This paper reports on seven cases of near hanging seen over four years in a district general hospital. The mechanism of injury is ligature strangulation rather than cervical spinal cord injury. All cases of near hanging should be actively and vigorously resuscitated, as initial presenting features bear a poor correlation to eventual outcome.