The Drug-Induced Respiratory Disease Website
Can be intentional, deliberate, inadvertent, by mistake, or by proxy. Sudden or delayed. See also under XI r/s. Death may occur from overdose, poisoning, intoxication, asphyxia, arrhythmia or CPA. Acute coronary event or be qualified as 'sudden cardiac death'. Laboratory evaluation and forensic measurements of drug(s) and substance(s) of interest on blood or tissue samples at/from autopsy is indicated in any unexplained death (PMID 24365689). See also under XIr. Fatal blood and tissue concentrations of 200+ drugs on PMID 15172079
Publications
Lidocaine-Induced Cardiac Arrest in the Emergency Department: Effectiveness of Lipid Therapy.
The Journal of emergency medicine 2016 Jan;50;47-50 — 2016 Jan — 47-50
Intoxication mortelle après ingestion accidentelle de xylocaine visqueuse à 2% chez une jeune enfant.
Acta clinica Belgica 2002;57 Suppl 1;51-3 — 2002 — 51-3