TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Cause of death in a patient lifting device
JO  - Archiv für Kriminologie
A1  - Grellner, W.
A1  - Madea, Burkhard
SP  - 140
EP  - 146
VL  - 195
IS  - 5-6
N2  - 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>
LA  - de
SN  - 0003-9225
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -