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Review
. 2023 Sep;23(9):358-363.
doi: 10.1016/j.bjae.2023.05.002. Epub 2023 Jul 21.

Hanging and near-hanging

A E Coombs  1 , D Ashton-Cleary  2
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Review

Hanging and near-hanging

A E Coombs et al. BJA Educ. 2023 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: asphyxia; attempted; resuscitation; suicide.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1
The proportion of suicide in England and Wales (2001–2018) attributable to each method by sex.
Fig 2
Fig 2
Images from a postmortem CT scan from a hanging victim demonstrating bipedicular fractures of C2, the so-called Hangman's fracture. (A) Unenhanced postmortem CT image in the transverse plane; (B) multiplanar reformatted image; (C) three-dimensional volume rendered image show bipedicular fracture of C2 (so-called hangman's fracture).
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