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
Fatal overdose of plant matter treated in a rural district general hospital.
BMJ case reports 2022 Apr 15;15; — 2022 Apr 15
Cardiotoxicity in yew berry poisoning: A case report and literature review.
The American journal of emergency medicine 2021 May 18;; — 2021 May 18