TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Aquatic fatalities--a systematic retrospective analysis
JO  - Archiv für Kriminologie
A1  - Breitmeier, Dirk
A1  - Schulz, Mirja
A1  - Schulz, Yvonne
A1  - Gunther, Detlef
A1  - Fieguth, Armin
A1  - Albrecht, Knut
SP  - 107
EP  - 118
VL  - 226
IS  - 3-4
N2  - In a retrospective analysis of the autopsy material (n = 5,767) of the Institute of Legal Medicine of the Hanover Medical School covering the period of 1998-2007, all aquatic fatalities were evaluated, categorized and systematically compared under epidemiological and forensic criteria. The total of 156 cases of death by drowning (2.7 % of all autopsies) included 38 bathtub drownings and 28 deaths in the water for which no pathological anatomical cause of death could be reliably demonstrated. A control group (n = 221) was investigated for the presence of aqueous liquid in the sphenoid sinuses and compared with the findings of the drowning cases without signs of putrefaction. About 16 % of the control cases had fluid in the sphenoid sinuses compared with 57.6 % in the drowning group. Most of the drowning victims were men (60.9 %), whereas in the group of bathtub drownings the majority were women. More than half of the drowning cases (n = 89) could be classified as accidents. The individual groups showed a different incidence of findings associated with drowning.<p />  <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0003-9225
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -