TY - JOUR PY - 2005// TI - Levels of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide in blood of fire victims in the autopsy material of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Białystok JO - Archiwum Medycyny Sadowej i Kryminologii A1 - Wardaszka, Zofia A1 - Niemcunowicz-Janica, Anna A1 - Janica, Jerzy A1 - Koc-Zórawska, Ewa SP - 130 EP - 133 VL - 55 IS - 2 N2 - The authors present the results of toxicological examination of blood of fatal victims of fires in "closed" spaces. Hydrogen cyanide was present in 26 out of 64 postmortem blood samples. COHb was found in 52 cases. The hydrogen cyanide levels ranged from 0.8 to 39.2 microg/l, the COHb levels ranged from 16.0 to 85.0%. The level of hydrogen cyanide was determined by the pyrazolopyridine method modified by Nedoma, and the COHb level was determined by the Wolff method.
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