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What Lead To Facial Foaming And Eventually Death?
hi , i had a client at work die on thursday morning.When i was called to the scene there were no visible signs of life he was on his back and his face was covered on the left hand side with foam.i was asked to commence CPR by the 999 phone operator when paramedics arrived he was pronounced 20-30 mins later.there was a history of drug abuse alcoholism also stroke with all the the medication surrounding stroke.due you think it could have been the stroke or a probable cocktail of alcohol heroin and zopiclone that terminated his life or could he have suffocated on the foam?
Fri, 24 Apr 2015
overdose deaths frequently have foaming at the mouth.
while you can have this with acute fluid in the lung from heart failure or heart attack, maybe with seizure maybe with aspiration. It's pretty classic from drug overdose which typically can do any or all of the above (acute heart failure, fluid in the lung, aspiration--typical, and/or seizure).
while you can have this with acute fluid in the lung from heart failure or heart attack, maybe with seizure maybe with aspiration. It's pretty classic from drug overdose which typically can do any or all of the above (acute heart failure, fluid in the lung, aspiration--typical, and/or seizure).
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