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*Beer bottles are common... and strong enought to fracture a skull. | *Beer bottles are common... and strong enought to fracture a skull. | ||
**Empty bottles have a higher fracture energy than full ones.<ref name=pmid19239964>{{cite journal |author=Bolliger SA, Ross S, Oesterhelweg L, Thali MJ, Kneubuehl BP |title=Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? |journal=J Forensic Leg Med |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=138–42 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=19239964 |doi=10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013 |url=}}</ref> | **Empty bottles have a higher fracture energy than full ones.<ref name=pmid19239964>{{cite journal |author=Bolliger SA, Ross S, Oesterhelweg L, Thali MJ, Kneubuehl BP |title=Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? |journal=J Forensic Leg Med |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=138–42 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=19239964 |doi=10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013 |url=}}</ref> | ||
===Commotio cordis=== | |||
Features:<ref name=pmid11334832>{{cite journal |author=Kohl P, Nesbitt AD, Cooper PJ, Lei M |title=Sudden cardiac death by Commotio cordis: role of mechano-electric feedback |journal=Cardiovasc. Res. |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=280–9 |year=2001 |month=May |pmid=11334832 |doi= |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Maron BJ, Estes NA |title=Commotio cordis |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=362 |issue=10 |pages=917–27 |year=2010 |month=March |pmid=20220186 |doi=10.1056/NEJMra0910111 |url=http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra0910111}}</ref> | |||
*Often negative autopsy; no cardiac pathology. | |||
*Etiology: arrhythmia. | |||
*History: trauma to chest. | |||
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*May be spelled ''Commodio cordis''.<ref name=pmid11555799>{{cite journal |author=Perron AD, Brady WJ, Erling BF |title=Commodio cordis: an underappreciated cause of sudden cardiac death in young patients: assessment and management in the ED |journal=Am J Emerg Med |volume=19 |issue=5 |pages=406–9 |year=2001 |month=September |pmid=11555799 |doi=10.1053/ajem.2001.24455 |url=}}</ref> | |||
==Sharp force trauma== | ==Sharp force trauma== | ||