Forensic aspects of complications resulting from cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Legal Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 94-99

  Hashimoto, Yoshiaki ^a   Moriya, Fumio ^a   Furumiya, Junichi ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Forensic pathology; Iatrogenic complication; Iatrogenic injury; Resuscitation artifact

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; ASSISTED VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE INJURY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LARYNX INJURY; LIVER INJURY; NECK INJURY; PATHOLOGIST; PETECHIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; RESUSCITATION; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RIB FRACTURE; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN BRUISING; SKULL FRACTURE; SPLEEN; STERNUM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THORAX INJURY; VIOLENCE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; AUTOPSY; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NECK INJURIES; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 33847041742     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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