ReviewInternational journal of emergency medicine2026
Post-obstructive pulmonary edema following near-hanging: a case report and systematic review of published cases.
Review in International journal of emergency medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPost-obstructive pulmonary edema (POPE) is a rare, life-threatening complication of strangulation. Management is based on low-grade evidence, and outcomes are poorly characterized.
objectiveTo report a systematic review of POPE following near-hanging, illustrated by a case report that represents the first documented African case.
methodsWe combined a novel case report with a systematic review of published case reports and case series, conducted per a pre-registered protocol on the Open Science Framework (OSF). A clinical trial number was not applicable. A comprehensive search of major databases identified all relevant published cases. Data on demographics, management, and outcomes were extracted and synthesized descriptively.
resultsFifteen cases from 11 publications were included. Patients were predominantly young (median age 24). Symptoms overwhelmingly presented pre-hospital (93%). Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) on admission was low (median 6), and the overall mortality rate was 40% (6/15). Adjunctive therapies were reported to be administered more frequently in survivors than in non-survivors, including diuretics (55.6% vs. 16.7%) and corticosteroids (44.4% vs. 16.7%), representing a potential clinical signal.
conclusionPOPE following strangulation is associated with high mortality in young, otherwise healthy populations. This review identified a tentative association between adjunctive diuretic or corticosteroid therapy and improved survival. While these hypothesis-generating findings require cautious interpretation due to the low-level evidence, they represent a potential clinical signal necessitating further prospective evaluation and standardized reporting.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.