Postmortem Increase in Body Core Temperature How Inaccurate We
Can Be in Time Since Death Calculations

J 2017

Postmortem Increase in Body Core Temperature How Inaccurate We Can Be in Time Since Death Calculations

VOJTÍŠEK, Tomáš, Štěpánka KUČEROVÁ, Jan KRAJSA, Bulent EREN, Petra VYSOČANOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Postmortem Increase in Body Core Temperature How Inaccurate We Can Be in Time Since Death Calculations

Authors

VOJTÍŠEK, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Štěpánka KUČEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Jan KRAJSA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Bulent EREN (792 Turkey), Petra VYSOČANOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Petr HEJNA (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FORENSIC MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY, PHILADELPHIA, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2017, 0195-7910

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30109 Pathology

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.643

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/17:00096479

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000286

UT WoS

000394411900007

Keywords in English

time since death; postmortem period; postmortem hyperthermia

Abstract

V originále

Postmortem increase in body core temperature is a well-known phenomenon in forensic practice. Despite this, cases of reliably documented postmortem hyperthermia are rarely reported in the forensic literature, and it is still not clear how frequently postmortem hyperthermia occurs and in which cases we may it predict. In routine forensic practice, the standard course of body cooling is expected, and the prediction of normal body core temperature in the time of death is used for back calculating the time of death by Henssge method. The unexpected rising in body core temperature may considerably misguide the estimation of time since death in the early postmortem period. We present a rare case of nonviolent death in the hospital with exactly recorded unusual elevation of body core temperature after death, although the body temperature shortly before the death was normal. In the presented case, the "standard" cooling of the body began up to 4 hours after death.

Citovat

VOJTÍŠEK, Tomáš, Štěpánka KUČEROVÁ, Jan KRAJSA, Bulent EREN, Petra VYSOČANOVÁ and Petr HEJNA. Postmortem Increase in Body Core Temperature How Inaccurate We Can Be in Time Since Death Calculations. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FORENSIC MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY. PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2017, vol. 38, No 1, p. 21-23. ISSN 0195-7910. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000286.

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VOJTÍŠEK, Tomáš, Štěpánka KUČEROVÁ, Jan KRAJSA, Bulent EREN, Petra VYSOČANOVÁ and Petr HEJNA. Postmortem Increase in Body Core Temperature How Inaccurate We Can Be in Time Since Death Calculations. \textit{AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FORENSIC MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY}. PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS \&{} WILKINS, 2017, vol.~38, No~1, p.~21-23. ISSN~0195-7910. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000286.

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