Citation

Wiergowski M, Kaliszan M, Sumińska-Ziemann B, Gos T, Jankowski Z. Rom. J. Leg. Med. 2014; 22(3): 153-156.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Romanian Legal Medicine Society)

DOI

10.4323/rjlm.2014.153

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The paper presents a case of suicidal asphyxiation with helium inhaled from a gas cylinder through a tube with its end placed under a plastic bag taped around the deceased young man's head. We attempted to detect helium in the deceased's lungs by means of gas chromatography with a mass spectrometry detector and it confirmed the presence of helium in the lung tissue. A modification of the method of helium isolation from the lung tissue before the chromatographic analysis was suggested. Key Words: helium, asphyxia, suicide, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry.

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