INJECTION OF TOXIC AGENTS - AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF DEATH

Authors
PESCHEL O BETZ P EISENMENGER W
Citation
O. Peschel et al., INJECTION OF TOXIC AGENTS - AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF DEATH, Forensic science international, 75(2-3), 1995, pp. 95-100
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, Legal
Journal title
Forensic science international → ACNP
ISSN journal
03790738
Volume
75
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
95 - 100
Database
ISI
SICI code
0379-0738(1995)75:2-3<95:IOTA-A>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Self-injection of toxic substances is a rare method of suicide. Since only case reports exist in the forensic literature, an evaluation of t he autopsy reports of the Munich Department of Legal Medicine in the p eriod 1976-1994 was performed including 36 suicides and seven homicide s due to injection of toxic agents. The majority of the deceased were physicians nurses or, in cases of homicidal, intoxication relatives. T he commonly used substances were anaesthetic drugs.