@article{ref1,
title="Never say never. Negligible carboxyhemoglobin in the victim of a smoldering mattress fire",
journal="American journal of forensic medicine and pathology",
year="1984",
author="Walter, J. E. and Hirsch, Charles S. and Zumwalt, Ross E.",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="239-244",
abstract="For many years, a high blood carboxyhemoglobin concentration has been used as a criterion for determining that a victim of conflagration was alive in the fire. We report a case in which a man died from the combined effects of burns and hypertensive cardiovascular disease. He had a negligible blood carboxyhemoglobin concentration, but the environmental evidence and autopsy findings are indicative of life in the fire, which arose in a smoldering mattress. We conclude that uncritical, rigid adherence to the requirement that fire victims have high carboxyhemoglobin concentrations can be misleading.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0195-7910",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}