INFANTS FOUND DEAD,

Persons found in their homes helpless or dead.

BACKGROUND Health care providers and providers of emergency services are sometimes called to help with people who are found alone in their homes either helpless or dead. It is not known who is at risk for being found helpless or dead, what the mortality rates are among those found alive, or how frequently this situation occurs. METHODS We conducted a population-based study of patients who wer...

Increased incidence of lymphoreticular aggregates in lungs of children found unexpectedly dead.

Emery, J. L., and Dinsdale, F. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 107. Increased incidence oflymphoreticular aggregates in lungs of children found unexpectedly dead. A quantitative study was carried out of the number of lymphoreticular aggregates in standard sections of the lungs of 316 children. Of these, 128 showed no recognizable lung disease, 104 of whom presented as sudden unexp...

A case of deferred death from drowning of a man found dead in bed at home.

An autopsy case of deferred death from drowning is reported. A 63-year-old man was found dead wearing wet clothing in his bed at home. At a medico-legal autopsy, mud was observed in the air passages as well as in the stomach, and a total of 210 g pleural effusion was also noted in the thoracic cavity (left 70 g, right 140 g). The left and right lungs were expanded and weighed 800 g and 950 g, r...

Post mortem findings in sows and gilts euthanised or found dead in a large Swedish herd

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to get information on post mortem diagnoses of sows found dead or euthanised and to understand the diagnoses aetiology (causative background). Moreover, the study was to evaluate the association between the clinical symptoms observed on farm and post mortem findings. METHODS A large Swedish herd was studied from January to September 2006. During the 32-wee...

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