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==Blunt force trauma== | ==Blunt force trauma== | ||
* | ===General=== | ||
*Weapon: fist, foot, baseball bat... pretty much anything. | |||
*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> | ||
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* [[AKA]] ''seatbeat syndrome''. | * [[AKA]] ''seatbeat syndrome''. | ||
* Def'n: separation of inner muscularis from submucosa.<ref name=pmid12198344>{{Cite journal | last1 = Slavin | first1 = RE. | last2 = Borzotta | first2 = AP. | title = The seromuscular tear and other intestinal lesions in the seatbelt syndrome: a clinical and pathologic study of 29 cases. | journal = Am J Forensic Med Pathol | volume = 23 | issue = 3 | pages = 214-22 | month = Sep | year = 2002 | doi = 10.1097/01.PAF.0000023001.32202.2D | PMID = 12198344 }}</ref> | * Def'n: separation of inner muscularis from submucosa.<ref name=pmid12198344>{{Cite journal | last1 = Slavin | first1 = RE. | last2 = Borzotta | first2 = AP. | title = The seromuscular tear and other intestinal lesions in the seatbelt syndrome: a clinical and pathologic study of 29 cases. | journal = Am J Forensic Med Pathol | volume = 23 | issue = 3 | pages = 214-22 | month = Sep | year = 2002 | doi = 10.1097/01.PAF.0000023001.32202.2D | PMID = 12198344 }}</ref> | ||
===Descent from height=== | |||
*Relatively common way to suicide. | |||
**May be an ''accident'', e.g. decedent thought they can fly (due to a psychosis). | |||
**May be a ''homicide'', e.g. decedent was pushed. | |||
====Gross==== | |||
Features: | |||
*Multiple injuries - often including multiple fractures, e.g. basal skull fracture, flail chest. | |||
*+/-Haemothorax - can be proved with a large bore needle. | |||
**Sufficient for cause of death - can be used to do an abbreviated post-mortem. | |||
*+/-Haemoaspiration (due to facial trauma) - presence suggest that decendent was alive shortly after landing/impact and thus likely very alive during the descent. | |||
==Trauma with delayed death== | ==Trauma with delayed death== | ||