Characteristics and toxicological processing of postmortem pilot specimens from fatal civil aviation accidents

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 252-259

  Chaturvedi, Arvind K ^a,b   Smith, Dudley R ^a   Soper, John W ^a   Canfield, Dennis V ^a   Whinnery, James E ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^b CIVIL AEROSPACE MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aviation forensic toxicology; Civil aviation accident investigation; Pilot fatality specimens

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; TOXICOLOGY; URINALYSIS; VITREOUS BODY;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AUTOPSY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEASONS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0037337205     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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