Background:
Because of the obvious increasing in the poisoning cases in the
recent decades . The aim of the study was to determine the
medicine groups that were used to commit suicide and suicide
attempts.
Methods:
Our study contained two sampl
es . . The first was 175 suicide
attempts ( 50 males, 125 females ), which were archives in the
Syrian poison information center in the period between 1998-1999.
These cases were divided into sex, age groups, incidence date The second was 84 suicide cases ( 54 males, 30 females ), which were archives in the medicolegal center in Damascus during the period between 1996 – 2000 . Out of 12 cases were because of using medicines, and the medicines classified according to the therapeutic medicinal groups.
Results:
Analgesics were used in 25.36% of all suicide attempts.
Paracetamol formed 94% out of it. The psychiatric tablets were
used 20.65%. The analgesics were used in 33.33% of all suicide cases. In one third of cases the persons used their own medicines.
The incidence of suicide attempts by using medicines for male:
female was 1:2.5. 48% of all suicide attempts were in the group 10- 20 years and 32% were in summer.
Conclusion: Most of suicide attempts by using medicines were due to paracetamol. So, we need other studies about suicide attempts in another cities .
The present study was prepared to assess the level of
potassium in the vitreous humor fluid, to calculate the post mortem
interval (PMI) by finding the regression equation and to study the
effects of environmental factors like temperature and humidity and
age and sex on it.
This paper has been carried out to Study the correlation
between Vitreous Humor Potassium Levels and the Time of
bleeding-caused Death, and to find a formula proposed to calculate
the post mortem interval (PMI) by finding the regression equation.
