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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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30109 Pathology
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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.
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