@article{ref1,
title="Cause of death in a patient lifting device",
journal="Archiv für Kriminologie",
year="1995",
author="Grellner, W. and Madea, Burkhard",
volume="195",
number="5-6",
pages="140-146",
abstract="Under the aspect of unusual and primarily obscure finding situations of dead bodies the case of a 81-year-old female occupant of an old people's home is reported. The woman was found dead being suspended by the hook of a patient's lifting machine, which had perforated through the floor of the mouth into the oral cavity. In the course of judicial inquiry first a homicide or a suicide, respectively, were justly considered. The autopsy results and circumstances of the case, however, pointed to a natural death (acute coronary insufficiency) with a preterminal/agonal fall into the hook of the lifting machine. An orthostatic circulatory dysregulation due to the suspension has possibly functioned as an additional mechanism accelerating death.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0003-9225",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}