TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Death from hypothermia during a training course under "extreme conditions": related to two cases
JO  - Journal of forensic sciences
A1  - Perich, Pierre
A1  - Tuchtan, Lucile
A1  - Bartoli, Christophe
A1  - Léonetti, Georges
A1  - Piercecchi-Marti, Marie-Dominique
SP  - 562
EP  - 565
VL  - 61
IS  - 2
N2  - Death from hypothermia following exhaustion or from various complicated pathologies is no longer a frequent cause of death among combat troops. During a training course under "extreme conditions" in the French Alps, two young African officers died. Confronted with these two clinically confirmed cases of hypothermia, the unknown anatomopathological and biological specificities associated with death from hypothermia were highlighted. In these typical and clinically confirmed cases of death from subacute exhaustion hypothermia, none of the signs revealed by the autopsy were specific. Although some recent publications have addressed the utility of postmortem biochemical markers when establishing a diagnosis, with no anamnesis, with no knowledge or analysis of the circumstances of death, and without an in situ examination of the body, it appears difficult, if not impossible, to confirm that death was caused by hypothermia.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-1198
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12981
ID  - ref1
ER  -