TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Laryngeal Choking on Food and Acute Ethanol Intoxication in Adults-An Autopsy Study
JO  - Journal of forensic sciences
A1  - Nikolic, Slobodan
A1  - Zivković, Vladimir
A1  - Dragan, Babic
A1  - Juković, Fehim
SP  - 128
EP  - 131
VL  - 56
IS  - 1
N2  - The retrospective autopsy study included 98 adults who died because of laryngeal choking on a bolus of food: 67 men and 31 women (chi(2 )=( )6.843, p < 0.01), average age 58.61 +/- 15.87 years (range 26-92 years). Most of the subjects had poor dentition (chi(2 )=( )34.327, p < 0.01). Twenty individuals died in medical institutions, and 78 were nonhospitalized individuals. More than a third of the nonhospitalized individuals were under the influence of ethanol at the moment of death: average blood concentration 8.3 g/dL (SD = 11.0), ranged from 5.0 to 36.0. Nonhospitalized persons were at the moment of event more often under influence of ethanol than the subjects in control group (chi(2 )=( )38.874, p < 0.01), and at the same time significantly more intoxicated (z = -7.126, p < 0.01). Our study pointed out that poor dentition and impairment of the swallowing reflex, as a consequence of ethanol intoxication in individuals without mental disorders, were the most important risk factors for bolus death.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-1198
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01510.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -