Alcohol intemperance and sudden death.

Alcohol and sudden cardiac death.

OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between alcohol intake and sudden cardiac death--ie, death within one hour of the onset of symptoms. DESIGN Prospective study of a cohort of men followed up for eight years. SETTING General practices in 24 towns in England, Wales, and Scotland. SUBJECTS 7735 men aged 40-59 at screening who were selected at random from one general practice in each of 24 tow...

Alcohol and drug abuse: causes of sudden death.

Alcohol consumption and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: experimental approach.

Using the pilocarpine model of epilepsy, we investigated the effects of alcohol consumption on the frequency of seizures in animals with epilepsy as well the underlying a possible association between alcohol intake and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) occurrence. Rats were divided randomly into two groups: (A) rats with epilepsy and (B) rats with epilepsy that received a daily dose o...

Death and Sudden Death

great value to the student of legal medicine. It is in fact such a book as Coull Mackenzie, if his life had been spared, might have written after long service as Police Surgeon, Calcutta. The volume deals with parts of the subject of forensic medicine which are alwajTs inadequately dealt with in ordinary treatises on legal medicine. The first part deals very fully with the phenomena of death, t...

antipsychotic drugs and sudden death

sudden, unexpected death may occur in apparently healthy individuals. its occurrence in psychiatric patients has raised the concern that the use of psychotropics, especially antipsychotics, may be associated with an increased risk of sudden death. this concern is maintained even though not all psychiatric patients who have succumbed to sudden death have been on psychotropics. early reports pres...