Suicidal Fatality from Azide Ingestion

• Robert Meatherall ^[1] ; Curtis Oleschuk ^[1]
  1. [1] St. Boniface Hospital Department of Laboratory Medicine Winnipeg MB Canada
• Localización: Journal of forensic sciences, ISSN-e 1556-4029, ISSN 0022-1198, Vol. 60, Nº. 6, 2015, págs. 1666-1667
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A 35-year-old man ingested an unknown amount of sodium azide and died within 2 h. The postmortem interval was 3 days. No alcohol or drugs were found in the blood and urine. Azide was derivatized in the peripheral blood, urine, and vitreous fluid with propionic anhydride. A portion of the headspace was injected onto a gas chromatograph with a nitrogen–phosphorus detector. Azide was quantitated in the peripheral blood (1.1 lg/mL), urine (7.5 lg/mL), and vitreous (43 lg/mL). The vitreous appears to be a better fluid for azide screening because of slower degradation.