@article{ref1,
title="Asphyxial deaths: a retrospective study and review of the literature",
journal="American journal of forensic medicine and pathology",
year="2006",
author="Azmak, D.",
volume="27",
number="2",
pages="134-144",
abstract="An increasing death rate as a result of violence constitutes a large group in medicolegal autopsies. Specially, deaths due to asphyxia are one of the most important causes in violence deaths. During the 21-year period from January 1984 to October 2004, there were 134 asphyxial deaths autopsied by the Department of Forensic Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey. Asphyxial deaths comprise 15.7% of all forensic autopsies; 20.8% of the cases are aged between 30 and 39 years, and the average age was 41.9 years. Males constitute 79.8% of all the cases.The most frequent method of asphyxiation death is hanging (56 cases, 41.8%), followed by drowning (30.5%) and carbon monoxide poisoning (8.2%). More violent methods, such as ligature or manual strangulations, constitute 2.9% and 2.3% of all asphyxial deaths, respectively. Although it was varying according to the methods of asphyxiation, suicide was found to be the manner of death in the majority of the cases.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0195-7910",
doi="10.1097/01.paf.0000221082.72186.2e",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.paf.0000221082.72186.2e"
}