Traumatic asphyxia: An autopsy case
Türkmen, N.; Eren, B.ül.; Erkol, Z.
Soudni Lekarstvi 60(4): 66-67
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 0371-1854 PMID: 26585308 Document Number: 680460
Traumatic asphyxia is a form of asphyxia where respiration is prevented by external pressure on the body. A 19-year-old man was found by relatives compressed by motorboat in the garage. The death was investigated by the prosecutor; body was taken to the Morgue Department for performing autopsy. On gross physical examination; the face, neck and upper part of the chest were congested and many petechiae were observed on the conjunctivae, but not in low extremities. Autopsy macroscopic examination of lungs revealed congestion, sub pleural superficial bleeding areas. In the presented case death was reported as traumatic asphyxia by thorax compression without other lethal factors.