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

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/17:00096479 RIV/65269705:_____/17:00067292 RIV/00179906:_____/17:10335579 RIV/00159816:_____/17:00067292

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000286" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000286</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000286" target="_blank" >10.1097/PAF.0000000000000286</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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 &quot;standard&quot; cooling of the body began up to 4 hours after death.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30501 - Forensic science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

ISSN

0195-7910

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

21-23

UT code for WoS article

000394411900007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85007196046