Citation

Grellner W, Madea B. Arch. Kriminol. 1995; 195(5-6): 140-146.

Vernacular Title

Tod im Personenlifter.

Affiliation

Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität zu Köln.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7646221

Abstract

Under the aspect of unusual and primarily obscure finding situations of dead bodies the case of a 81-year-old female occupant of an old people's home is reported. The woman was found dead being suspended by the hook of a patient's lifting machine, which had perforated through the floor of the mouth into the oral cavity. In the course of judicial inquiry first a homicide or a suicide, respectively, were justly considered. The autopsy results and circumstances of the case, however, pointed to a natural death (acute coronary insufficiency) with a preterminal/agonal fall into the hook of the lifting machine. An orthostatic circulatory dysregulation due to the suspension has possibly functioned as an additional mechanism accelerating death.

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