Psychosocial effect of COVID-19 lockdown suicidal cut throat injury: a case report

Authors

  • Sandeep Shetty Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
  • Shilpa Chandrashekar Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
  • Nitish Aggarwal Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7675-4122
  • Kumar Shankar De Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-5929.ijohns20203213

Keywords:

COVID-19, Delirium tremes, Laryngotracheal trauma

Abstract

The novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020 presents vast challenges to the population particularly to vulnerable ones such as those with addictive disorders amid lockdown with no access to alcohol and difficult to reach overburdened healthcare. We present such a case of a 45 years old alcohol dependent in withdrawal with self-inflicted cut throat injury.

Author Biographies

Sandeep Shetty, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Associate professor, Department Of Otorhinolaryngology, Head And Neck Surgery, JSS Academy Of Higher Education And Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Shilpa Chandrashekar, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Assistant professor,Department Of Otorhinolaryngology, Head And Neck Surgery, JSS Academy Of Higher Education And Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Nitish Aggarwal, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

POST GRADUATE,Department Of Otorhinolaryngology, Head And Neck Surgery, JSS Academy Of Higher Education And Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Kumar Shankar De, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Post graduate,Department Of Otorhinolaryngology, Head And Neck Surgery, JSS Academy Of Higher Education And Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

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Published

2020-07-22

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 8 (2020): August 2020

Section

Case Reports