Nineteen patients were admitted after hanging, six patients after drowning, two after corrosive chemicals ingestion, one after jumping from building, and two after gun shot.
But at the Rockefeller University Hospital, on the Upper East Side, 25 original pieces of art by well-known artists are hanging in patients' rooms, hallways and examination areas.
Excluded were patients in whom no initial blood Hb measurement was done on admission, referrals, patients without risk for traumatic injuries or haemorrhage based upon mechanism of injury (inhalation, drowning or dive injury, intoxications, electrocution and suicide attempt by hanging) and patients with an abnormal Hb on admission.
Mortality risk factors of post-hanging patients have been identified, but long term morbidity prognostic factors have not.
These results seem to be better than in the most important cohort [1] published until now in self-hanging patients without CA and not treated by HBOT (mortality at 9.5% and 3.5% of poor neurological recovery).
Data for seven patients were excluded from the analysis for the following reasons: obvious noncardiac cause of arrest (hanging) in two patients, four patients already had ROSC when rSO2 measurement was started, and data from one patient could not be used due to a technical defect during transfer of data.
"It's almost equivalent to hanging a patient by the rib after it's opened — just hanging them in the air," said Mr. Pell.
Instead, she captured a bandaged hand propped against a stark hospital wall; peaks and troughs on a heart-rate monitor; martyrdom posters hanging between patient rooms; a portrait of Abdullah Öcalan, the militant Kurdish leader imprisoned in Turkey since 1999, mounted next to the gaping mouth of a C.T. scanner.
