SUDDEN DEATH PARTICULARITIES
Abstract:
Purpose: Sudden death is a phenomenon of main interest for forensic medicine. Its causes are
heart-related, digestive, respiratory, meningo-encephalitis, infectious etc. Materials and methods: We
performed a retrospective longitudinal study over a period of 10 years, on a total of 946 cases within the
casuistry of Sibiu County Forensic Service. We aimed at epidemiological distribution by age, gender,
origin environment, seasonality, distribution of cases according to the location of death, the
presence/absence of alcoholic intoxication and at the correlation of the obtained data with that from
literature. Results: The study revealed that sudden deaths in men have a share of about three times
higher than in women; it has been found a double number of cases in urban areas, with a maximum
incidence in the age group of 50-59 years. Most deaths occurred in the winter months. As the cause of
death in over two-thirds of the cases it was due to cardiac pathologies. The article has been elaborated
as part of doctoral research.
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