Fatal hyperthermia associated with excited delirium during an arrest

Legal Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 306-309

  Bunai, Yasuo ^a   Akaza, Kayoko ^a   Jiang, Wei Xiong ^a   Nagai, Atsushi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Excited delirium; Exercise; Heat stroke; Hyperthermia; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; DELIRIUM; ENDOCARDIAL HEMORRHAGE; FATTY LIVER; HEART DILATATION; HUMAN; HYALINE DEGENERATION; HYPERTHERMIA; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE NECROSIS; POLICE; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SUBCUTANEOUS HEMORRHAGE; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEVER; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 51049087491     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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