An Immediate Death by Seat Belt Compression; a Forensic Medicine Report

Although death is a gradual process, sometimes sudden death occurs in a fraction of a minute or seconds. Here we report a 49-year-old man without any underlying disease, which has instantly died in an accident scene due to compression of neck critical elements by a three-point seat belt. The examina...

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Autores principales: Najari, Fares, Alimohammadi, Ali Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26495409
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description Although death is a gradual process, sometimes sudden death occurs in a fraction of a minute or seconds. Here we report a 49-year-old man without any underlying disease, which has instantly died in an accident scene due to compression of neck critical elements by a three-point seat belt. The examination of the body and the results of the autopsy, toxicology and pathology tests are described from the viewpoint of forensic medicine.
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spelling pubmed-46083422015-10-22 An Immediate Death by Seat Belt Compression; a Forensic Medicine Report Najari, Fares Alimohammadi, Ali Mohammad Emerg (Tehran) Case Report Although death is a gradual process, sometimes sudden death occurs in a fraction of a minute or seconds. Here we report a 49-year-old man without any underlying disease, which has instantly died in an accident scene due to compression of neck critical elements by a three-point seat belt. The examination of the body and the results of the autopsy, toxicology and pathology tests are described from the viewpoint of forensic medicine. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4608342/ /pubmed/26495409 Text en Copyright © 2015 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0)., (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).
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