TY - JOUR T1 - Acute cyanide poisoning by subcutaneous injection JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 389 LP - 390 DO - 10.1136/emj.2004.016915 VL - 22 IS - 5 AU - I Prieto AU - I Pujol AU - C Santiuste AU - R Poyo-Guerrero AU - A Diego Y1 - 2005/05/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/22/5/389.abstract N2 - A 30 year old woman with a history of depression and previous suicide attempts was brought to the emergency department in coma. She had injected herself with cyanide subcutaneously and had severe metabolic acidosis. She underwent sustained haemodialysis in the intensive care unit (ICU) before laboratory confirmation of cyanide poisoning. The serum cyanide concentration was 4.6 μg/ml. After 48 hours the patient, now asymptomatic, was discharged from the ICU. ER -