Citation

Azparren JE, Ortega A, Bueno H, Andreu M. Forensic Sci. Int. 2000; 108(1): 51-60.

Affiliation

Instituto Nacional de Toxicologia, Madrid, Ministerio de Justicia, Spain. quimica@mad.inaltox.es

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10697779

Abstract

The levels of ventricular blood strontium (Sr) from 70 seawater drowning victims were compared with their diagnosis of drowning based mainly on certain criteria selected from their autopsy report. From this comparison, intervals of either the difference of Sr concentration between the left and the right ventricle blood (LVSr-RVSr) or the Sr concentration in the left ventricle blood (LVSr), appear to be related to different time-lapses of the agonal period of drowning. In the aim to diagnose drownings, intervals of both LVSr-RVSr and LVSr were proposed to characterize three different agonal periods in seawater drowning cases: instantaneous death (ID), fast vital-submersion drowning (FVSD) and common vital-submersion drowning (CVSD).

Language: en