Characteristics of fire victims in different sorts of fires
| Autor: | J. H. Olving, Sidsel Rogde |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Injury control Accident prevention Poison control Suicide prevention Fires Pathology and Forensic Medicine Homicide Cause of Death Blood alcohol Injury prevention Humans Medicine Child Lung Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Carbon Monoxide Ethanol business.industry Medical jurisprudence Infant Middle Aged Carbon humanities Surgery Carboxyhemoglobin Child Preschool Female Burns business Law Demography |
| Zdroj: | Forensic Science International. 77:93-99 |
| ISSN: | 0379-0738 |
| Popis: | We studied retrospectively 286 cases of fire deaths from a 10 year period. The victims were classified according to the type of fire. Among the victims of smouldering fire, 80% had lethal HbCO saturations, whereas only 30% had such saturations when an accelerant had been used. The third group consisted of victims of fires in which the type of fire was, for various reasons, undetermined. HbCO saturations were not influenced by sex, age, concomitant disease or blood alcohol concentration. In eight cases neither respiratory soot nor HbCO was detected in spite of evidence that the deceased was alive as the fire broke out. The material included nine cases of homicide and 22 cases of suicide. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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