Nonchemical suffocation deaths in forensic setting: A 6-year retrospective study of environmental suffocation, smothering, choking, and traumatic/positional asphyxia

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 646-651

  Boghossian, Elie ^a   Tambuscio, Silvia ^a,b   Sauvageau, Anny ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Medecine Legale   (Canada)

^b Private Consultant in Legal Medicine for the Court of Padua ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Asphyxia; Choking; Entrapment suffocation; Environmental suffocation; Forensic sciences; Positional asphyxia; Smothering; Suffocation; Traumatic asphyxia

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BODY POSTURE; CANADA; CHILD; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ASPHYXIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; QUEBEC; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951121876     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01351.x     Document Type: Article

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