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11100426

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-2-15
pubmed:abstractText
The period since death was estimated at the scene in 72 consecutive cases using the temperature-based nomogram method as the primary method and supplemented by examination of criteria such as lividity, rigor mortis, mechanical and electrical excitability of skeletal muscle and chemical excitability of the iris. A case-oriented, computer-assisted selection of the non-temperature-based methods and integration of the results into a common result of the compound method was made following a special logistic. The limits of the period since death as estimated by the nomogram were improved in 49 cases by including the non-temperature-based methods and also provided results in 4 cases where the temperature method could not be used. In a further 6 cases the non-temperature-based methods confirmed the limits estimated by the temperature method but in 14 cases a useful result could not be obtained. In only one of the cases investigated was the upper limit of the period since death, as estimated by the criterion re-establishment of rigor (8 h post-mortem), in contradiction with the period determined by the police investigations (9.4 h post-mortem).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0937-9827
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
113
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
320-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Experiences with a compound method for estimating the time since death. II. Integration of non-temperature-based methods.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Essen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study