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Table 2 Details of the 9 fatalities classified as pharmaceutical drug poisonings

From: Fatal drug poisonings in a Swedish general population

Case number

Sex

Age

Type of drug poisoning

Suspected drugs

Postmortem femoral

blood concentration

(μg/g)

1

Female

81

Intentional

Nitrazepam

NA

2

Female

34

Intentional

Levomepromazine

3.6

3

Female

27

Intentional

Morphine

0.18

4

Male

26

Intentional

Nitrazepam

0.7a

    

+ carbamazepine

17

    

+ propoxyphene

1.2

    

+ promethazine

0.1

5

Maleb

85

Unintentional

Digoxin

NAc

6

Female

64

Unintentional

Amitriptyline

3

7

Maled

53

Unintentional

Alimemazine

3.9

8

Male

80

Unknown intent

Diazepam

0.4

9

Malee

53

Unknown intent

Alimemazine

0.7

  1. Abbreviation: NA = not available
  2. a Analysed as the metabolite 7-amino-nitrazepam
  3. b This case was also suspected to have an adverse drug reaction contributing to the fatal outcome, a warfarin-related intravesical haemorrhage [14].
  4. c The plasma concentration of digoxin was 6.9 mmol/l at admission to hospital.
  5. d 1.5 ‰ of ethanol was detected in postmortem urine.
  6. e 4.4 ‰ of ethanol was detected in postmortem femoral blood.