Epidemiology and Determinants of Short-Term Outcome in Critically Ill Patients With Near-Hanging Injury

Outcome After Near-Hanging Injury

Near-Hanging is a catastrophic event that has been merely studied in the literature. We aimed to report the outcomes, and early predictors of hospital survivors in critically ill patients with near-hanging.

Patients admitted to 31 university or university-affiliated participating ICUs in France and Belgium between 1992 and 2014 were studied retrospectively. Hospital survival was the main judgment criterion.

Inclusion Criteria:

• any of the following code corresponding in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision: Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation (X70). Local investigators reviewed the medical records of the patients thus identified to select adults admitted to the ICU after successfully resuscitated near-hanging injury.
• older than 18 years
• requiring ICU management

Exclusion Criteria:

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