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Technical note: unsafe rectal temperature measurements due to delayed warming of the thermocouple by using a condom. An issue concerning the estimation of the postmortem interval by using Henßge’s nomogram

In some cases, in the Netherlands, an additional layer is being added to the thermocouple, used to measure the rectal temperature in medicolegal death investigations. Because of this deviation from the standard method, questions arose regarding the accuracy and precision of the measured temperature....

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Autores principales: Krap, Tristan, Meurs, Joris, Boertjes, Janine, Duijst, Wilma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25972304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00414-015-1186-2